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INTERVIEW Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof for Cultura la dubă: “History is like a burden. There is always a conflict between tradition and modernity.”

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was filmed secretly without the authorities’ permission, with minimal technical means, and crew members in Iran are interrogated and threatened. This is the only interview that Rasoulof gave for a romanian publication, Cultura la dubă.

Mircea Arapu, Illustrator of Pif and Hercule: “Drawing has always kept me on the surface.”

In 1959, a 4 year old boy from Bucharest, living in a part of the city with nice houses, between Popa Nan and Hala Traian, decided to leave home and go searching for Pif, the famous comic book dog.

He had discovered the Pif universe in the Vaillant magazines, that an aunt had given to his older brother. From that moment on, he has dedicated his life to his passion for comics.

Cristinel Șirli, the sound engineer in charge of one of the top studios in France: „I didn’t come to France to do sound, it was a matter of life and death.”

Born in Oravița and going to high-school in Bucharest, young Cristinel Șirli was dreaming in the ‘80s of becoming a cinematographer. At the age of 20, a horrifying diagnosis that gave him only a few months to live, would change his destiny.

Today he is one of the most important film sound engineers in France, owning his own studios, at the highest level, in the center of Paris.