An interview with the Romanian film director Lucian Ţion
In November 2019 the Romanian film director Lucian Ţion visited Sofia in order to participate in a conference on the socialism’s heritage. He was then interviewed by Vesselin Alexiev for the YouTube channel of the club “Meaning”. In the moment of the interview Ţion was making a doctorate, dedicated to the Chinese and Eastern Europe cinema at the University of Singapore. Ţion is interested in the parallels between Southeastern Asia and Eastern Europe. The interview, which the blog “The Bridge of Friendship” publishes, builds on this topic – the transition towards capitalism in these regions and the way these regions approach their socialist past and the capitalist centres.
Here is Vesselin Alexiev’s interview with Lucian Ţion in English:
Vladimir Mitev is a Bulgarian Romanian-speaking journalist. He has interacted with many Bulgarian and Romanian media outlets, including Bulgarian National Radio, Mediapool, all major Bulgarian television stations, Darik Radio, and more (Bulgaria); Radio Romania, The Liberal Community 1848, all the major Romanian television stations; DoR; Libertatea; PressHub; and others (Romania); The Analysis, Acorn Radio (USA); Open Democracy (UK); voxEurop (France); the Observatory for the Balkans and the Caucasus; The Other News (Italy); The Institute for Central Europe (Poland); Argument (Czechia); Merce (Hungary); Bilten (Croatia); and Agora (the Republic of Moldova).
He promotes the idea of non-hegemonic, mutually empowering interactions in Central and Southeastern Europe that could contribute to the formation of a dynamic regional identity and connect citizens to the global community.