Simona joined the Romania Insider team in 2015, first working on our travel guide in English and, later, writing features and interviews for Romania Insider. Since 2022, she has been Editor-in-Chief of Romania Insider. She holds a BA in Romanian and English and an MA in American Studies from the University of Bucharest and started her journalism career in 2003. Simona divides her time between her hometown Ploiești and Bucharest. While in Ploiești, she enjoys spending time with her family and taking long walks with the family dog. Going through an ever-expanding reading list and traveling, now replaced by travel literature and documentaries, are some of her favorite activities. You can get in touch with her for stories about arts, culture, and travel: simona@romania-insider.com
Romanian director Radu Jude has won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for Kontinental '25 at this
The 29th edition of the French Film Festival will take place between March 20 and March 30 in
The fourth edition of the festival Visuali Italiane - New Italian Cinema in Romania will cover a
DokStation - Music Documentary Film Festival, the only festival in the country dedicated to
Human Scale, a project by artist Vlad Nancă alongside Muromuro Studio, namely architects Ioana Chifu
The Hills of Change, a symphony by Romanian and Norwegian composers, will have its local premiere at
Alain Fleischer’s documentary Brâncuși, Les métamorphoses de la sculpture will be screened on
Munch, a B2C food surplus marketplace active in Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Romania
Fitness network Stay Fit Gym has opened its 50th center this month, and aims to reach 100 fitness
Food waste prevention app Bonapp, which is active in Romania, and Hungarian-born Munch, which is
The president of the Senate, Ilie Bolojan, is first in line to take over the position of interim
President Klaus Iohannis announced he was resigning from office to spare the country from the crisis