The program of this year’s edition of Rasnov History Film Festival will comprise a total of 40 movie screenings, including premieres, 11 special events, two exhibitions, and 20 lectures and debates. The event will take place between July 31 and August 9.

Award-winning Romanian drama Aferim!, directed by Radu Jude, Tudor Giurgiu’s Why Me?/De ce eu?, and Chuck Norris vs Communism, directed by Ilinca Calugareanu, are just of the Romanian movies to be screened at the festival. Organizers also recommend In The Sands of Babylon, a film about the Gulf War, and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Search.

This year, the festival also comes with a novelty: a comic books workshop for children. During the event, participants will create a comic book with a historical subject, reports local Agerpres.

The program also includes jazz, folk, blues, and alternative rock concerts, and two exhibitions.

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Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com