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EXCLUSIVE. How Sebastian Stan found out he was nominated for an Oscar: "I stopped rehearsals and told him." Cristian Mungiu, interview for Observator

Cristian Mungiu, director who won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at Cannes, spoke to Observator, Antena 1, about the new film he is preparing and which stars Sebastian Stan, an actor recently nominated for an Oscar.

by the Observator Editorial Team

EXCLUSIVE. How Sebastian Stan found out he was nominated for an Oscar: "I stopped rehearsals and told him." Cristian Mungiu, interview for Observator.

Cristian Mungiu, a filmmaker who won an award at Cannes for the film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, but also the director of films such as Occident, După Dealuri or Baccalaureat, gave an EXCLUSIVE interview to Observator. He said that he was with Sebastian Stan when the Romanian actor was nominated for an Oscar. Cristian Mungiu also talked about his new film, a production that will take him to Norway for filming and which has Sebastian Stan in the lead role.

"For now, Sebastian came to Romania for some rehearsals. We are not in a promotional phase because we don't really have anything to promote yet. We are organizing to make the film and it was important for us to see each other at this stage."

I met with Sebastian and Renate Reinsve, the lead actress, for some costume fitting and rehearsals, and what was also nice was that we were together when he received this news.

(Reporter: So he was in Romania?) Yes, he was in Romania and we were happy. He was emotional, but we agreed that we would work that day and we were in rehearsals when I received a message. I was happy to tell him: hey, you've been nominated!

Of course we were happy, but it's very important that now we can focus on what we have to do, because what we have to do next is quite difficult.

I hope we can start filming in March. We have to film for about two months, until May, in Norway. It is still not clear whether we will also film in Romania, probably not, but that is a decision we will make a little later. We have a cast made up mostly of Nordic actors: Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, plus Sebastian and a few Romanians.

"We've known each other for a long time. He came to New York once, when I was screening a film, and we met. We agreed to stay in touch in the hope that one day we would find a project to work on together. And look, I found one that was convenient for both me and him. For him, both in terms of role, language, and period," said Cristian Mungiu.

He also gave some details about the script.

(Reporter: What is the film about?) "It's the story of a meeting of two cultures, if you want to say it that way, which is expressed in the film through the meeting between two families who live next to each other in a very isolated locality, in a Norwegian fjord, in a place that we found and where there are only two or three houses. A situation that brings a fairly intimate report between neighbors and that shows a certain exchange related to each one's cultural values, ideas about family, about education. It's a community story, a story about the need to understand that there are no longer monoblock communities like before.

I don't know if it's a "difficult" film, because I've never made easy films. It's a more difficult film because I'm filming in a language other than Romanian, a difficult film because it also has to do with how the seasons manifest themselves today and because we don't know what weather we'll get there.

We're filming for about 50 days and the hope is that during this period we'll catch snow, rain, and spring.

"If everything goes well, we will try to get him to Cannes in 2026," he added.

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București, 2025

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Gudu Spring Summer 2025

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Got tagged by @gellavonhamster to share 9 books I want to read in 2025! This post matches my favorite reads from 2024 as well hehe

- Human Acts by Hang Kang. Recently got it as a gift, can't wait to read it.

- Tristan by Gottfried Von Strassburg (+ Thomas) because it's Tristan.

- The death of King Arthur translated by Simon Armitage. Need I say more.

- The brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. My friend Dumas made me lose all fear for long books so perfect time to finally get my hands here.

- My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante. Currently in queue for the audiobook at the library. Estimated availability is end of March 💀

- Bucharest: dust and blood by Margo Rejmer. About the fall of Romanian dictator Ceaușescu that the nicest ever lady sold me at the book fair. I'm hugely interested in Romanian history so it was well sold.

- Las hijas horribles by Blanca Lacasa. This is not available in English but it's basically an essay about mother/daughter relationships (title translates to 'the awful daughters' so you get the idea)

- Madhouse at the end of the earth by Julian Sancton. Polar exploration baby!!

- The looking glass sisters by Gøhril Gabrielsen. I'm not entirely sure what this novella is about, and that's part of the appeal. Let's get a surprise!

Thanks a lot!! This was fun!! I love not shutting up about books 🥰

Tagging @a-funeral-pyre @briarhips @emberdune @cucullas and honestly anyone else who'd like to do it!!

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🪡🧵Romanian women have been coding signs for ages. Their threads bind apotropaic symbols into scrolls of fabrics and garments, according to complex systems, which have been developing since the Neolithic ages. In this pocket size comics collection I tried to gather bits of the pixel's long forgotten story. The rough English version of the 36 page publication is available here >>> https://issuu.com/sorivazelina/docs/mostrar2_eng

To flip through the Romanian version please visit the exhibition, at the Peasant Museum in Bucharest, open till the 9th of January 2025. It was built as a reflection on a unique anonymous textile piece, discovered in the archive of the ASTRA Museum in Sibiu. The hyper-sensorial works, leading up to this marvel of over 200 embroidered motifs, belong to artists such as Aurelie Morillas, Marlene Herberth, Marin Raica, Sillyconductor, Anamaria Lungu, Atelier Vrac, all brought together by the Dala Foundation and Ovidiu Daneș, who has been saving the local architectural, intangible and natural heritage, together with his wife Lumini��a, for more than a decade, also via the CUCA festival.

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Grab your laptop and head for the Balkans. Balkan cities have grabbed all the top places in popular online UK listing’s mag Time Out’s best cities in Europe to be a remote worker, or “digital nomad” to give it its more glamourous name.

Forget Paris, the much-hyped Portuguese capital Lisbon or touristed-out Prague.

First place goes in this table to the often-overlooked capital of North Macedonia, Skopje.

Travel experts at Norton Finance company, the loan company producing the ranking table, looked at 184 countries worldwide and ranked them based on average rent, utilities, transport, food, gym and internet costs, as well as the cost of return flights from the UK.

Defending its decision to give first prize in Europe to little known Skopje, it writes: “The city is a notoriously good-value tourist destination, popular for its archaeological sites and street food …. The value of public transport is one reason why Skopje scores so well, as a monthly public transport pass is an enormous eight times cheaper than the London equivalent.”

After Skopje, another Balkan capital grabs second place – Sarajevo, described as “the charming capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A one-bed flat in the city centre averages at a crazy-affordable €275 (£238, $289) per month”.

And third place goes to Moldova’s capital, Chisinau, a city that rings very few bells among UK travellers but where Norton Finance cheerily notes that a pint of beer “costs a measly €1.30 (£1.12, $1.37)” – i.e. about a quarter of the price in London.

Fourth place goes to Sofia in Bulgaria, fifth to Romania’s capital Bucharest and sixth to Belgrade in Serbia.

Copenhagen and Dublin are ranked among the worst European cities to be a digital nomad by Norton Finance, mainly owing to sky-high rents, some five times higher than those in the Balkans.

The number of so-called digital nomads, people working remotely – often but not always abroad – has surged massively in recent years, as office work goes out of fashion, wifi gets better and as more and more people work online.

“Thanks to the pandemic, more people are choosing to embrace a location-independent, technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to travel and work remotely,” Forbes magazine noted in 2022,. It suggested that by 2025 some 22 per cent of the US workforce will be remote workers, or 37.5 million people.

It adds: “To date, a total of 46 countries have jumped on the digital nomad visa bandwagon”, offering visas specially designed to lure such nomads from abroad.

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EXCLUSIVE: Cristian Mungiu to Shoot Fjord in Norway with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve

BUCHAREST: Romanian Palm d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu is preparing to shoot his new feature Fjord entirely in Norway as of March 2025. This Romanian/French/Norwegian/Danish/Finnish/Swedish drama starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve has already been acquired by GoodFellas.

In January 2025, Stan and Reinsve flew to Romania for rehearsal and costume tests before leaving together with Cristian Mungiu and part of the team to Norway. It was in Romania that Stan found out about the Academy Award nomination for his leading performance in The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi.

Written by Mungiu, Fjord tells a story about the encounter between two neighbouring families living in a remote Norwegian village. Mihai (Sebastian Stan) is Romanian and Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) is Norwegian. In the other couple, Mats is Norwegian while Mia is Swedish. Their children go to the same school. The families will have to admit, handle and resolve their different views about family, education and progress. What are the limits of personal freedom and from which moment onwards the society compels you to conform?

“Fjord is a story about irreconcilable views of the world, about conformity, tolerance and the limits of freedom and intimacy”, said Cristian Mungiu in a statement.

He is producing through Romania’s Mobra Films in coproduction with Why Not Productions (France), Eye Eye Pictures (Norway), Snowglobe Film (Denmark), Aamu Film Company (Finland) and Filmgate Films (Sweden).

“The financing is still in progress, and so far the project is supported by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC), Creative Europe - MEDIA, Film i Vast, and Western Norway Film Commission”, executive producer Tudor Reu from Mobra Films told FNE.

The project received the biggest amount of 703,538 EUR / 3.5 m RON at the latest batch of the grants contest organised by the Romanian Film Centre, whose results were announced at the end of October 2024.

For Fjord Mungiu will be working with some of his usual collaborators, including Romanian DoP Tudor Vladimir Panduru and editor Mircea Olteanu.

The approximately 40-day shooting will start in March 2025 in Møre & Romsdal, Norway, and the premiere of the film is set for 2026.

This is the first film in Romanian for Stan (42), who left Romania as a child, and the second meeting on screen between him and Renate Reinsve after A Different Man by Aaron Schimberg, which brought Stan the Best Leading Performance award at the Berlinale 2024, as well as the Golden Globe in the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy category.

Production Information:

Producer: Mobra Films (Romania) info@mobrafilms.ro

Coproducers: Why Not Productions (France) Eye Eye Pictures (Norway) Snowglobe Film (Denmark) Aamu Film Company (Finland) Filmgate Films (Sweden)

Credits: Director: Cristian Mungiu Scriptwriter: Cristian Mungiu DoP: Tudor Vladimir Panduru Editor: Mircea Olteanu Production designer: Marius Winje Brustad Costume designer: Kirsi Gum Sound: Constantin Fleancu, Pietu Korconen, Kristian Eidnes Cast: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve

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MAR 7  Sundsvall Club Destroyer - SWEDEN

MAR 8 Uppsala - Katalin - SWEDEN

MAR 15 Örebro – Frimis - SWEDEN

APRIL 24 Athens - Piraeus Club Academy - GREECE

APRIL 25  Athens - Piraeus Club Academy - GREECE

APRIL 26  Thessaloniki -  WE - GREECE

APRIL 27 Bucharest - Quantic - ROMANIA

JULY 5 Alice Festival - Borlänge - SWEDEN

JULY 10 Suwlaki Blues Festival 2025 - Suwalki - POLAND

SEPT 13 Raismes Fest 2025 - Raismes - FRANCE

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Litkovska Spring Summer 2025

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HPNC Contest 2024

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Honorable Mention

the evening falls

over the linden in bloom--

the fragrance 

shaping your face

drawn from my memory

 

Cristian Matei

Bucharest, Romania  

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Mystery berries of Bucharest at USAMV

January 2025

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Thursday 6th February 2025, Bucharest, 2.47am.

#190,112 — A couple live in an old, isolated mansion. Among them: the confinement of a Soviet defector in the mid-1960s; assassination plots of foreign leaders, including Cuba’s Fidel Castro; wiretapping and surveillance of journalists; behaviour modification experiments on ‘unwitting’ US citizens.