Bucarest

Depuis longtemps installée en France, Letitia rentre régulièrement à Bucarest pour tenter de récupérer un héritage confisqué par le régime communiste. Ces voyages dans son pays natal sont autant d'occasions de replonger dans son passé. Le temps d'une journée en ville, lui reviennent par bribes les souvenirs, collectifs et intimes, de ces trente dernières années. Que reste-t-il de l'amour clandestin qui la liait à Sorin, et face à quel choix cet homme l'a-t-il laissée ? Leur séparation l'a poussée du côté des exilés. …

Charles Kaplan, blessé à Kiev lors de son reportage couvrant les combats, se retrouve à l'hôpital où il apprend que le cadavre de l'homme qui l'assistait a disparu. L'infirmière suspecte un réseau de trafiquants d'organes et dirige Charles vers une organisation humanitaire où travaille son frère. Cette piste l'entraîne de la Roumanie à la Turquie, de la Chine en Ukraine.
Ils sont condamnés. Vous aussi. Mais vous ne le savez pas…

In "Rue Escalei", Laura Nicolae paints a vivid picture of her native Romania during the communist era and reveals the resilience of close-knit communities where generosity manages to survive, like flowers that bloom in the cracks of broken concrete.
Prix Robert-Cliche 2024. …

The Network Media Cooperative (Network Medien-Cooperative) was founded in October 1979 – by April 1990 we had already issued 19 titles, at the time as audio-cassettes with a comprehensive booklet in a small package that looked like a chocolate box. The covers and layouts were produced using Letraset on a light-table installed over a bath tub. Among those first records were the musical themes that were to preoccupy us for 30 years: an extensive document of the “Gypsies Music Festival”; meanwhile the music of the Roma has been documented on numerous Network CDs, including the anthology “Road of the Gypsies” (often copied but never achieving the same level). A double musíccasette packet was devoted to cult music from Haiti and the sounds and life philosophy of the Rastafarians in Jamaica. Recording trips were undertaken, among others, to Cuba, Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Curacao, but also to Latin America, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Belize. We also approached the music worlds of Africa in our portrait of the South African pianist and vocalist Dollar Brand (today Abdullah Ibrahim) and in the first studio recordings of Soukous music. These were followed by trips to Liberia, Senegal, Mali, Tanzania, Zanzibar.