Programs and Tours

American Romanian Festival

UMMA is pleased to be cosponsoring a film series and concert for the Third Annual American Romanian Festival, which will include many other educational, cultural, and artistic events in both the United States and Romania, including a lecture at UM by the renowned author and NPR contributor Andrei Codrescu. For more details about the events and the festival, please visit www.americanromanianfestival.org.

All films are screened in the Helmut Stern Auditorium and are free of charge.

Cosponsored by the American Romanian Festival, the UM Center for Russian and East European Studies, and UMMA.

Romanian Film Series

Sunday, December 13

3 PM: Children of the Decree by Florin Iepan (2004, 50 min)
A fascinating documentary, taking a trip through 25 years of Ceausescu's rule in Romania, during which he tried to increase his country's population by banning all contraceptives and outlawing abortion.

4:10 PM: Architecture and Power by Nicolae Margineanu (1994, 52 min)
Political power always betrays its intentions through architecture. This is a history of Bucharest seen through the eyes of totalitarian architecture.

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