Securitate

25 Jan 2024 - 25 Jan 2024

“Photographing War and Atrocities” - Holocaust Remembrance Day

We mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on January 27, with a film and conversation covering aspects of the Holocaust in Romania and the Romanian Controlled Territories. Memories from the Eastern Front, a short archive film by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă

30 Nov 2023 - 4 Dec 2023

Romanian Film Festival 290th Edition (RFF20)

From 30 November – 4 December, the 20th edition of the Romanian Film Festival 290th Edition will unfold in London. The projections will take place at the prestigious Curzon cinema in Soho, and each screening will be followed by a Q&A session with well-known actors

17 Sep 2017 - 17 Sep 2017

Herta Müller: An Afternoon with a Nobel Laureate

Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller, the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, meets her London readers for an afternoon of great literature and fiery conversation. The iconoclast author, equally famous for her brilliant prose and intransigent public advocacy,

11 Nov 2016 - 13 Nov 2016

The Dangerous Art of Voiceover: Irina Margareta Nistor in London

We are excited to welcome to London the most famous voice of Communist cinephilia! Translator, film critic and journalist Irina Margareta Nistor, the voice that brought Hollywood films to Communist Romania's TV screens, is the protagonist of a series of events that

29 Apr 2014 - 29 Apr 2014

UK Premiere: Valentin Hotea's 'Roxanne' at the Romanian Cinematheque

The next film to be screened at the Romanian Cinematheque is Valentin Hotea's 'Roxanne', one of the most unconventional attempts by a Romanian director to deal with the communist dictatorship and its lingering aftermath. Set in the city

23 Feb 2014 - 23 Feb 2014

Dubliners for a day

This year, Valentin Hotea's 'Roxanne' (2013) is the Romanian entry in the official selection at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, the oldest partner of ICR London across the Irish Sea. Another Romanian presence in the festival will be the

13 Jun 2013 - 13 Jun 2013

Pernicious Paper: Securitate’s Files and their Afterlife

For almost fifteen years, the darkest secrets of life and death under communism have been brought to light by The National Council of the Study of the Archives of Securitate (CNSAS), the custodian of a terrible history of surveillance, repression, and human sufferance.  Historian Dennis

4 Jul 2013 - 7 Apr 2013

Exuberant ConTempo’s Ireland-UK tour continues with three London concerts

The ConTempo Quartet much-awaited London tour, supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, continues, after Dublin, with three London concerts. The first one will take place in 1 Belgrave Square on 4 April within our well-established Enescu Concerts Series and will present

4 Apr 2013 - 4 Apr 2013

The Musician Who Came in from the Cold: Enescu and the

We are proud to organise within our Enescu Series, in the debut of ConTempo Quartet concert, a presentation by the author Ladislau Csendes, member in The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, of an intriguing new publication, Enescu: A Surveilled Exile? which

28 Mar 2013 - 31 Mar 2013

Exuberant ConTempo’s Ireland-UK tour debuts in Dublin

As a preface to their much-awaited London tour, supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute, the multi award-winning ConTempo String Quartet plays Enescu's expressive String quartet no 2 at the prestigious Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, with the support of the Romanian

29 Mar 2010 - 29 Mar 2010

Lansare de carte: Diplomatie Economica Europeana de Radu Serban

Institutul Cultural din Londra gazduieste lansarea cartii Diplomatie Economica Europeana, in prezenta ES Dr Ion Jinga, Ambasadorul Romaniei in Marea Britanie, si a dlui Dorian Branea, Director Institutul Cultural Roman Londra. Panelul ii include ca invitati de onoare