Antoanela Safca, Author at Euяaw Stories

Ida explores ‘different versions of Polishness’

by Antoanela Safca on 23/09/201623/09/2016 in .

Ida has been described as a masterpiece, made it on the BBC list of the 21st century greatest films, and won the first Oscar for a Polish film. Only a… [Continue Reading]

Corneliu Porumboiu – the director who makes waves

by Antoanela Safca on 14/09/201614/09/2016 in .

Corneliu Porumboiu, the son of a soccer referee, is one of the directors who defined the Romanian New Wave. Not often a director gets their first feature film awarded at… [Continue Reading]

What makes a hero?

by Antoanela Safca on 12/09/201612/09/2016 in .

‘Everybody is a revolutionary in their own way,’ says Piscoci, the retiree in 12:08 East of Europe. In a plot determined to identify a specific type of hero, his reflection… [Continue Reading]

History live on TV

by Antoanela Safca on 07/09/201607/09/2016 in .

The Romanian revolution of 1989 was as much a live TV event as a street revolt, storming into people’s lives from behind the screens. Revolutionaries took refuge in the National… [Continue Reading]

Riding the Romanian New Wave in cinema

by Antoanela Safca on 30/08/201602/09/2016 in .

An alcoholic history teacher, a widower and a small town TV presenter walk into a television studio… that is the premise of our next EuRaw Stories film. Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08… [Continue Reading]