ARCS Project

Sasha Vlad - Surrealism: The Romanian Case of Gellu Naum
2016-02-24 | WA
Sasha Vlad, a translator of Gellu Naum’s work and a surrealist visual artist, talks about Naum’s life and work, within the frame of the surrealist movement.

ARCS at Balkan Night Northwest
2016-03-05 | Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland, 98033, United States
Visit ARCS table at Balkan Night Northwest and craft your own martisoare.

ARCS Sponsors Romanian Films at SIFF
2016-05-24 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | WA
ARCS Sponsors Romanian Films at SIFF
This year ARCS sponsors Illegitimate by Adrian Sitaru..

Second Generation Photo-Essay Award
2016-10-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Bellevue Library, 1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States

Cântec de leagan
2016-10-08 | WA
O poveste despre Maria Tanase (Lullaby. A Story about Maria Tanase)

Iuliana Pana reads from Rigla de Aur
2016-10-11 | WA
Iulia Pană has a free reading and book signing event for her latest poetry volume Rigla de Aer. Reading will be in Romanian.

Iuliana Pana reads from Ebony Bones
2016-10-12 | WA
Iulia Pană has a free reading and book signing event for her latest poetry volume Ebony Bones. Reading will be in English.

Meet Author Carmen Francesca Banciu
2016-10-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Suzzallo and Allen Libraries, 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
ARCS is proud to host renowned author Carmen-Francesca Banciu, who is visiting Seattle to promote the recent publication of the English translation of “Mother’s Day: Song of a Sad Mother” and “Berlin is My Paris”.
Carmen-Francesca’s novels are semi-autobiographical narratives about living in and leaving Romania. Part “Bildungsroman” and part autobiographical memoir, “Mother’s Day” explores mother-daughter relations under the communist dictatorship in Romania and sparks dynamic questions about Eastern Europe, work, the woman artist, and women’s relationships with one another. “Berlin is My Paris” describes the experiences of the immigrant artist grappling with a new language, culture, and writer’s block following the fall of Communism.

Romanian Film Festival - 3rd Edition
2016-11-18 - 2016-11-20 | WA
The Romanian Film Festival Seattle, "One Eye Laughing, One Eye Crying: [be]longing", 3rd EditionFilmsDogs by Bogdan Mirică2016, Thriller, 104 minutes
Roman returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his...
Roman returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land..
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By The Railsby Cătălin Mitulescu2016, Drama, 88 minutes
Radu has come back from Italy after an year and finds his wife totally changed. They spend the night trying to rediscover their selves. The distance has created distrust and...
Radu has come back from Italy after an year and finds his wife totally changed. They spend the night trying to rediscover their selves. The distance has created distrust and confusion between them but Radu hopes for a new beginning. Music resounds beyond the railroad. The night was never that long.
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Silent Weddingby Horațiu Mălăele2008, Comedy, 87 minutes
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the...
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding. Q&A with director Horațiu Mălăele
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Why Me?by Tudor Giurgiu2015, Drama, 125 minutes
Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career...
Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations. Q&A with director Tudor Giurgiu
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Aliyah Dada by Oana Giurgiu2015, Documentary, 115 minutes
A documentary about the Jewish people in Romania and their several migrations towards Israel, across history and changing political frames - everything presented in a self-proclaimed dadaist style.Q&A with director...
A documentary about the Jewish people in Romania and their several migrations towards Israel, across history and changing political frames - everything presented in a self-proclaimed dadaist style. Q&A with director Oana Giurgiu
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Happy Funeralsby Horațiu Mălăele2013, Comedy, 111 minutes
It's about three lifelong friends. One evening, all three of them go to a fortune teller and are told that they will die in a week, on a specific day...
It's about three lifelong friends. One evening, all three of them go to a fortune teller and are told that they will die in a week, on a specific day and in a certain way. Q&A with director Horațiu Mălăele
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Mercy Streetby Ștefan Buzea, Alexandru Buzea2016, Animation, 74 minutes The day when music stops. First stereoscopic 3D animation feature film ever made in Romania. GuestsHorațiu MălăeleFamous Romanian actor, director and cartoonist, Horațiu Mălăele, was born in 1952, in Targu Jiu. He had his first art exhibit in 12th grade. In 1975, he graduated from the Institute of Theater and Cinema in Bucharest. He began his professional acting career on the stage of the National Theater in Piatra Neamt. He then moved to Bucharest and has performed at legendary theaters such as the Nottara, Odeon, Bulandra, etc., where he has had many roles of great success. He started his career as a theater director with shows such as a Princely Feast by Theodor Mazilu, The Flea by Georges Faydeau, or Carlo against Carlo by Paul Ioachim, for which he won the Romanian Comedy Festival Prize, in 1994. He made his cinema debut in 1974, in The Hidden Mountain. He also directed movies such as The Hat(2004), Silent Wedding (2008) and Happy Funerals (2013). He had over 30 art exhibits and published an autobiographical book called Horatiu about Malaele, as well as Wanderings, a collection of short episodes, aphorisms, and memories. Tudor GiurgiuMember of the European Film Academy, Tudor Giurgiu is the founder and President of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), the most prestigious film-related event in Romania. His directorial debut feature Love Sick was selected in Panorama section of 2006 Berlinale and awarded in several int’l festivals. His short Superman, Spiderman or Batman (2011) won Best European Short at the 2012 edition of European Film Academy Awards. Tudor’s 2nd feature, Of Snails and Men, was awarded in Warsaw IFF and Valladolid IFF. Why Me?, an unsettling legal thriller based on a real case of corruption in present-day Romania, premiered in 2015 Berlinale Panorama. His most recent films are Libertate / Freedom (2023), a story inspired by real events that happened during the Romanian Revolution and Nasty (2024), a documentary about the Romanian tennis legend Ilie Năstase co-directed alongside Cristian Pascariu and Tudor D. Popescu, which premiered as a Special Screening at Festival de Cannes in 2024. Oana GiurgiuA law and journalism graduate, Oana Giurgiu directed television documentaries before working in film on Cristi Puiu’s 2005 Cannes Un certain regard winner, “The Death of Mr Lăzărescu” and then on Kornél Mundruczó’s 2008 Cannes FIPRESCI winner, “Delta”.

She produced three of Tudor Giurgiu’s films: “Love Sick” (Berlinale 2006, Panorama); the 2012 Romanian box office hit “Of Snails and Men” (Warsaw IFF); and “Why Me?” (Berlinale 2015, Panorama). She also produced Peter Strickland’s “Katalin Varga” (Berlinale 2009, Silver Bear, European Discovery of the year at European Film Academy Awards) and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada” (Cannes 2016). Oana co-produced Hungarian titles “Eden”, dir. Agnes Kocsis (Rotterdam IFF 2020) and “Spiral” (in post-production), dir. Cecilia Felmeri and the Slovak “The Servants”, dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky (Berlinale 2020, Encounters), and the Turkish “Before two Dawns” (in post-production), dir. Selman Nacar (working progress awards at Meetings on the bridge, Istanbul IFF 2020, and Antalia 2019), produced the greatest Romanian box office hit in recent years, “Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time”, which received ten Gopo Awards in 2019.

After working on several television documentary productions, she made her directorial debut with a feature-length historical documentary, “Aliyah DaDa”, screened in Astra Sibiu, Jerusalem Jewish IFF, alongside other Jewish festivals and screenings worldwide, and recognized as Best Romanian Documentary at the Gopo Awards 2015, now she just launched her new documentary “Occasional Spies”, Special mention of the Jury at Astra Film Festival 2021. Monica FilimonMonica Filimon was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature by Rutgers University. She is Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. She has published articles on French, German, and Romanian films. Her research focuses on the New Romanian Cinema, its sources, evolution, and major representatives. Her first book Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World was published by the University of Illinois Press in February 2017. She is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Corneliu Porumboiu: Notes on the Absurd.

I'm A Blind Man/Sunt Un Orb
2016-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | WA
Born out of the artist’s need and desire to share his favorite poems with his public, in his original interpretation, the show will add new layers of meaning to well-known Romanian texts from Nichita Stanescu, Emil Brumaru, George Toparceanu, Marin Sorescu, Spiridon Popescu or Adrian Paunescu. Alongside poetry, the artist will sprinkle his performance with music, theater and lots of improvisation.We invite you to experience a powerful performance full of subtleties, love, humor, contradictory feelings, hope and laughter. It is a show that, as the artist confesses, “is not only about me, but it’s about you, too.” This performance will be in Romanian.

Of Snails and Men - A Film by Tudor Giurgiu
2017-03-17 19:00 - 21:00 | ALK Asphalt, 12630 N 103rd Ave, Sun City, AZ, 85351, United States
Screening by the Alliance Française de Seattle as part of series of events celebrating unique Francophone cultures.
Join us on Friday, March 17, 7-9 PM, for the second film of the francophone series, Of Snails and Men (2012), a comedy by Tudor Giurgiu, with Andi Vasluianu, Monica Bârlădeanu, and Dorel Vișan. Selected by the American Romanian Cultural Society.
Screening at l’Alliance Française de Seattle, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, #204(the Good Shepherd Center), Seattle, WA 98103. Subtitles in English.
RSVP required to attend.
Doors open 6:45 PM
This event is free for AFSeattle members. There is a $5 suggested donation for non-members.
Light refreshments served.

Comedia Remix
2017-03-25 | WA
Legendary actor George Mihăiță, together with theater critic and curator Cristina Modreanu, are coming to Seattle to present a documentary about the Golden Age of Romanian theater.

Club Piticot
2017-04-09 | WA
Club Piticot invites all children of Romanian heritage at a creative workshop where they learn about Romanian Easter traditions and prepare for the arrival of the beloved Easter Bunny: In asteptarea Iepurasului. We are waiting for you, your friends and family on April 9 between 4-6pm at Laurel Park Condominium 11200 NE 68TH St, Kirkland, WA 98033. (recommended for children between 3-12 years) The event will be mainly in Romanian. See you there!

Dinu Lipatti 100th Anniversary Concert
2017-04-27 | Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland, 98033, United States
Alexandru Tomescu (violin) and Angela Draghicescu (piano), pay tribute to the birth centennial of the legendary pianist, in a concert featuring exquisite chamber works of Lipatti and other composers.

ARCS Sponsors Romanian Films at SIFF
2017-05-27 | WA
ARCS Sponsors Romanian Films at SIFF
This year ARCS sponsored the screening of Adrian Sitaru’s Fixeur (The Fixer).

Ion Creanga and His Literary Characters
2017-06-03 | WA
Illustrations by Ary Murnu and Puppet Theater A 2-Day Celebration of International Children's Day.
