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A film like a lament: ‘Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu’

Dan Pița’s film Ecce Homo Brâncoveanu (2024) re-enacts the martyrdom of Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and his family, drawing on a Christian lament and a historical parable, with Dorel Vișan in the…
Elena Dulgheru No. I (XVII) / 2024
Ars Christiana Articol

“Quo Vadis”: a festival to transform Romania

The first edition of the Quo Vadis International Film Festival, held in Iași from 7 to 10 November 2024 under the auspices of the Doxologia Missionary Cultural Centre, brought recent Christian…
Elena Dulgheru No. II (XVIII) / 2024
Ars Christiana Articol

‘The Miracle’ – a film about a miracle performed by Saint Nicholas that shook the Soviet Union

The film Ciudo/The Miracle (2009), directed by Aleksandr Proșkin from a screenplay by Yuri Arabov, recreates the miracle known as ‘Zoya’s Stiffening’, which took place in 1956 in Kuibyshev, at the…
Elena Dulgheru No. I (XV) / 2023
Ars Christiana Articol

‘The Monk and the Demon’: a philosophical take on ‘Stan Pățitul’

The Monk and the Demon (2016), the final film by Russian director Nikolai Dostal, based on a screenplay by Yuri Arabov, is a dramatic comedy blending folk parable, hagiographic fable and theological…
Elena Dulgheru No. II (XVI) / 2023
Ars Christiana Articol

‘The Ladder’ or ‘A Short Treatise on the Artist’s Salvation’

The film Scara (2021), directed by Vlad Păunescu from a screenplay by Constantin Chelba, follows the existential journey of the actor Andrei Avram, inspired by the life of Dragoș Pâslaru, set against…
No. II (XX) / 2025
Ars Christiana Articol

The phenomenon of the TV series ‘Saint Paisios – From Farasa to Heaven’ is more than just a cinematic experience! [Part I]

The Greek television series Saint Paisios – From Farasa to Heaven, broadcast in February 2022 on Mega TV and Alpha TV Cyprus, is analysed as a pan-Orthodox social and cultural phenomenon, within the…
Elena Dulgheru No. I (XIX) / 2025
Via Peregrina Articol

Via Dolorossa – the loneliness of Jerusalem

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem is followed step by step, from the Garden of Gethsemane and the Fortress of Antonia to Golgotha and the Holy Sepulchre, tracing the fourteen stations of the Way of the…
Theodora Videscu No. II (XVIII) / 2024
Via Peregrina Articol

The River Jordan – Our Epiphany

The article describes the geography and sacred history of the Jordan Valley, from the river’s source in northern Israel to the Dead Sea, with a focus on the original site of the Lord’s Baptism,…
Theodora Videscu No. I (XV) / 2023
Via Peregrina Articol

Bethlehem – The House of Bread

Bethlehem, the city of the Nativity of the Lord Jesus Christ, is presented through its holy sites: the Basilica of the Nativity, founded by Empress Helena and Constantine the Great in 325; the Grotto…
Theodora Videscu No. II (XVI) / 2023
Via Peregrina Articol

The Sinai Peninsula and Christian Egypt. St Catherine’s Monastery

St Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula, one of the oldest Orthodox monastic settlements in the world, is presented in the context of its biblical history, the role of Empress Helena and…
Theodora Videscu No. II (XX) / 2025