AFI presents the 23rd AFI European Union Film Showcase, a selection of new films from EU member states including film festival award winners, box office hits and US premieres. Two Romanian recent films are featured in In this year's selection: TUESDAY, AfTER CHRISTMAS, d. Radu Muntean on Nov 13 & 16, and the 2010 Oscar Selection from Romania for Best Foreign Language Film IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE, d. Florin Serban on Nov 20 & 23.

“To Act or Not to Act: Ethics in Romanian Cinema” is a film festival organized by the Pittsburgh Romanian Studies group in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. It aims to highlight the thematic congruence of post-1989 Romanian movies, which deal with ethics in times of crisis, individual and collective responsibility, the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe, globalization, immigration, and local affiliations.

Stefano Ionescu was invited by the American Conference on Oriental Rugs to make a speaking tour on the topic of Ottoman carpets in Transylvania Churches. Stefano Ionescu, was born in 1951 at Timisoara, at the border of Transylvania, graduated in Bucharest and lives in Rome since 1975. As an independent scholar on Oriental carpets he dedicated almost 10 years to the study of Anatolian carpets of Ottoman period which survived in Transylvania. This region continues to be the repository of the richest and best-preserved corpus of small Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world: almost four hundred examples attributable to the golden period of Ottoman weaving from the 15th to the 18th century including ‘Holbein’, Ushak, ‘Lotto’, Selendi and a wealth of so-called ‘Transylvanian’ rugs.

Codrescu latest book, The Poetry Lesson isn’t a poem, isn’t a novel, isn’t a memoir, he says. It’s pure unhinged European sensibility of the same order that has been lighting up NPR radio, publishing “Exquisite Corpse,” and producing some 30 books of essays, poems and fiction since the 1960s.

Mid - Manhattan Library presents "Feeling like an immigrant
- then and now" , an illustrated talk with Haya Leah Molnar, author of Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania. In her recently published vivid memoir, “Under a Red Sky,” Haya Molnar tells the story of a young Jewish girl, who is struggling with her identity as her eccentric family tries to keep her safe from the totalitarian regime. Her immigration story begins when the family escapes to the west. Using excerpts and photographs from the book, she will talk about the emotional impact of immigration, even long after becoming an American — and the importance memory plays in our national identity.

AFI FEST 2010 Los Angeles presented by Audi takes place November 4 - 11 in the heart of historic downtown Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, the neighboring Mann 6 Theater (in the Hollywood and Highland Center), the Egyptian Theatre and the Roosevelt Hotel. Romanian film MORGEN. d. Marian Crisan, will be featured in this year's selection.

Romanian Children's Relief is pleased to invite you on Thursday, November 11th for a pre-release screening of Hand Held, the new documentary film produced and directed by two-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Don Hahn. The film follows Mike Carroll, the founder of RCR and Fundatia Inocenti, who was one of the first photographers to travel to Romania after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. The screening will be held at The Walt Disney Studios Park Ave Screening Room in New York City. All proceeds of the event will go to benefit the Romanian Children's Relief.

DECO HEART presents the new band from Transylvanian expat pianist LUCIAN BAN featuring an amazing line-up with visionary MAT MANERI on viola, veteran altoist BRUCE WILLIAMS, contemporary drummer DEVIN GREY and legendary tuba player BOB STEWART. From tradition distilled to post - everything avant-garde. Fractal grooves and unfettered lyricism. New music by some of today's most creative musicians.

The film directed by Stefan Constantinescu is an extravagant journey from Communism to Capitalism, seen from the perspective of one of Romania's most emblematic symbols, the Dacia automobile. The film follows different generations of Romanians - from those nostalgic of a better past, to the young entrepreneurs - showing the present transformation of Romanian society.