Elena Dulgheru

3 July 2024
Artistic director of the festival

Elena Dulgheru – film critic, journalist, translator. Lecturer at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Alba Iulia, Department of Cinematography, Photo and Media, Romania

Doctorate in Cinematography and Media (2008), with the work Eastern European Cultural Interferences in the work of Serghei Paradjanov. Graduate of the Faculty of Film - UNATC, Audiovisual Communication Section, with the work Aspects of the sacred in the work of Andrei Tarkovski.

Main areas of expertise: filmology, film and art criticism, cultural journalism, cultural history and theory, film theory, audiovisual anthropology, sacred aesthetics, art-religion dialogue, science-religion, Church-society.

Member of UCIN and FIPRESCI. He has more than 48 works in collective volumes and specialized publications from Romania and abroad. From his activity we retain the original author's works: Erotico-Apocalyptic. Poems from the Temple of the Father, 2015; Tarkovsky. The film as a prayer. A Poetics of the Sacred in the Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, 4th edition, updated and improved, 2014; For the passing of dawn and other poems, 2011; Stairway to Heaven in the cinema. Kusturica, Tarkovski, Paradjanov, 2011; Talking to Marina Tarkovskaia, 2004; Tarkovsky. The film as a prayer. A poetics of the sacred in the cinema of Andrei Tarkovski, 2002.

He participates as an accredited journalist, guest, jury member at international film festivals and cultural events.

Initiator and main organizer of the international event “Tarkovsky Days in 2012 - 80 years since his birth" (Bucharest, December 4-7, 2012)”, https://tarkovski2012romania.wordpress.com/