Romane Iasfa/Romani Tears (special screening, attended by director)
Feb. 23., 3:30-5:30, CMU 120
Free and open to the public.
In Romania, in 1942, the military dictator and Nazi ally Marshall Ion Antonescu ordered the mass deportations of Roma (Gypsy) people and Jews to Transnistria. In this documentary, Luminita Mihai Cioaba, Roma cultural leader in Transylvania, Romania interviews some of the last remaining Roma Holocaust survivors of these little known historical events. Film screening followed by Q & A with Ms. Cioaba.
This event is sponsored by MIRG (Moving Images Research Group); the Department of Spanish & Portuguese; the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media Studies Program; the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences; The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Moving Images - Graduate Interest Group 