May 26, 2024
A roundup of the main local and international news.
Newsroom, 26.05.2024, 14:03
MESSAGE In a message conveyed today on the occasion of the Day of the Romanians all over the World, President Klaus Iohannis has urged the Romanians to keep their identity, language and the Romanian traditions. Iohannis added that he constantly promoted the setting up of professional communities between the Romanians abroad and those at home, thus creating a tighter connection between the business people, scientists, physicians and Romanian artists from the world over, who worked together to accomplish many successful projects. Bucharest is seeing the last day of the 7th edition of a festival known as ‘Here and There’, an event that comprises a series of activities staged by the Department for the Romanians all Over the World jointly with the Union of the Fine Artists in Romania. For three days, the event has brought together Romanian artists from the country and abroad, activating in various fields of creation such as fine arts, design, music, film, etcetera and also members of academia and business environment from the Romanian communities abroad. This year’s edition has been attended by hundreds of Romanians from the Diaspora and the historical communities in 34 countries.
TENNIS Four players from Romania are on the main draw of the Roland Garros tournament, the year’s second Grand Slam tournament, which kicked off in Paris. Today, Jaqueline Cristian will be playing Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, the competition’s ninth seed. Sorana Cirstea, Romania’s best tennis player at the moment, has been designated the tournament’s 28th seed. In the first round she will be playing Ana Blinkova of Russia. In turn, Ana Bogdan will be playing the wild car winner Elsa Jacquemot of France. Irina Begu, also of Romania, will be up against Julia Riera of Argentina. We recall that a former world number one, Romanian Simona Halep, won the trophy in 2018. In 1978, Virginia Ruzici became the first Romanian to win this famous French tournament.
AI Romania is going to have an AI Research Institute through which it intends to develop its own technological solutions, cooperate with international partners and train top experts in this field, the country’s Finance Minister, Marcel Bolos, wrote on Facebook. According to Bolos, the Ministry he’s leading has already started to use AI in order to detect anomalies as well as in its anti-fraud operations. The construction of the first center of AI research in Romania kicked off at the Technical University in Cluj Napoca through an investment of 21 million Euros.
FILMS “Anora”, a thriller directed by American Sean Baker, has won the Palme d’Or trophy at the 77th edition of the Film Festival in Cannes. Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light”, a film about sisterhood in Mumbai, has reaped the Grand Prix, the festival’s second-highest honour, while ‘Emilia Perez’ of the French director Jacques Audiard, has won the Jury Prize. Romanian production “Three Kilometers to the End of the World” has reaped the Queer Palm, an alternative award given every year to productions addressing LGBT issues. Another two Romanian productions, NASTY, directed by Cristian Pascariu, Tudor D. Popescu and Tudor Giurgiu, which portrays the life of Romania’s tennis legend Ilie Nastase, and “Human Violins” by Ioana Mischie have also been screened during this famous international film festival.
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