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More time to shine ✨ Submit your entry by May 30!

Haven’t joined the competition yet? There’s still time to perform a Roma song and share it with the world.

📌 Use #RomaniGili
📌 Tag @eriac_org (Instagram) or @eriac.org (TikTok)

Extended deadline: May 30

Prizes up to €2,000.
Open to Roma worldwide.

More info: www.eriac.org

#RomaniGili #SongContest #Romani #ERIAC

Yesterday is Tomorrow, a group exhibition at ERIAC’s Spring Salon, revisits the resonance of traditional craft within contemporary artistic practice.

At its center, Roma artists bring inherited forms of material knowledge into dialogue with sculpture, performance, narrative, and installation, mobilizing craft as a living, evolving language through which memory, identity, and material histories are continuously reconfigured.

Yesterday is Tomorrow: Spring Salon at ERIAC
Aliz Farkas (HU), Roland Farkas (NL), Rašid Nikolić (IT), Roxy Toledo Munrose(UK)
9 April – 24 July 2026

@aliz._.farkas @a__wolf_1 @theparamisar @rtmunrose

📷 Installation view, Yesterday is Tomorrow group exhibition on display at ERIAC's Art Space in Berlin/ Lisa Vlasenko @li_nenoli

Yesterday is Tomorrow, a group exhibition at ERIAC’s Spring Salon, revisits the resonance of traditional craft within contemporary artistic practice.

At its center, Roma artists bring inherited forms of material knowledge into dialogue with sculpture, performance, narrative, and installation, mobilizing craft as a living, evolving language through which memory, identity, and material histories are continuously reconfigured.

Yesterday is Tomorrow: Spring Salon at ERIAC
Aliz Farkas (HU), Roland Farkas (NL), Rašid Nikolić (IT), Roxy Toledo Munrose(UK)
9 April – 24 July 2026

@aliz._.farkas @a__wolf_1 @theparamisar @rtmunrose

📷 Installation view, Yesterday is Tomorrow group exhibition on display at ERIAC's Art Space in Berlin/ Lisa Vlasenko @li_nenoli

ERIAC presents the 2026 Film Pitch Deck, the second edition of the initiative showcasing a curated selection of film projects involving Roma creatives from across Europe.

Presented during the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Creative Europe MEDIA Pavilion, the Pitch Deck highlights the diversity of contemporary Roma storytelling and supports the visibility and professional advancement of Roma filmmakers within the international audiovisual industry.

The publication is available throughout the Marché du Film and now also online.

www.eriac.org

#ERIAC #cannes2026 #marchedufilm #romanifilm #romanicinema #creativeeuropemedia

ERIAC presents the 2026 Film Pitch Deck, the second edition of the initiative showcasing a curated selection of film projects involving Roma creatives from across Europe.

Presented during the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Creative Europe MEDIA Pavilion, the Pitch Deck highlights the diversity of contemporary Roma storytelling and supports the visibility and professional advancement of Roma filmmakers within the international audiovisual industry.

The publication is available throughout the Marché du Film and now also online.

www.eriac.org

#ERIAC #cannes2026 #marchedufilm #romanifilm #romanicinema #creativeeuropemedia

ERIAC presents the 2026 Film Pitch Deck, the second edition of the initiative showcasing a curated selection of film projects involving Roma creatives from across Europe.

Presented during the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Creative Europe MEDIA Pavilion, the Pitch Deck highlights the diversity of contemporary Roma storytelling and supports the visibility and professional advancement of Roma filmmakers within the international audiovisual industry.

The publication is available throughout the Marché du Film and now also online.

www.eriac.org

#ERIAC #cannes2026 #marchedufilm #romanifilm #romanicinema #creativeeuropemedia

ERIAC is supporting a national tour through Roma communities across Romania, bringing cinema closer to the places where these stories belong and creating spaces for dialogue, reflection, and shared cultural experience.

Directed by Simona Constantin, “CALIU: Nothing else, what else can I do?” follows legendary violinist Caliu at a turning point in his life and career, as he struggles to reinvent himself while navigating memory, music, and belonging.

The tour begins in Brăila County with the first screenings taking place in:

21 May | Făurei, Brăila
Casa de Cultura a Orașului Făurei

22 May | Șuțești, Brăila
Salon Evenimente, Strada Narciselor 37

In the coming months, the film will also travel to Satu Mare, Prahova, Vaslui, Iași, Tulcea, and Dâmbovița.

First visit to the ERIAC office in Berlin by Dr. Michael Brand, Federal Government Commissioner for the Fight against Antigypsyism and for Sinti and Roma Life in Germany, accompanied by Lisa Albers, German delegate of ADI-ROM, Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

During the meeting, Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, ERIAC’s recently appointed Executive Director, introduced herself and presented the institute’s renewed strategy, outlining key areas of work, with a particular focus on the Western Balkans and Roma Holocaust remembrance.

The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange views on potential areas of cooperation between ERIAC and the Commissioner’s office, with the aim of consolidating joint efforts in the fields of Roma rights, remembrance, and cultural recognition.

@bmbfsfj x @eriac_org

#fightingantigypsyism #sintiundroma #HolocaustRemembrance #RomaRights

Through the ancient art of the Paramiśar, Rašid Nikolić transforms stories into acts of resistance, giving voice to the lived experiences, struggles, and aspirations of the Roma people.

Rooted in oral tradition, puppetry, and family heritage, his work carries forward a culture sustained across generations through storytelling, music, and movement.

Fragments of the Paramiśar’s world are presented at ERIAC's Art Space in Berlin, as part of the group exhibition Yesterday is Tomorrow, on view until 24 July 2026.

#ERIAC #YesterdayisTomorrow #ERIACArtSpace #puppetry #Paramiśar

🎥 New Romani Cinema, ERIAC's 2026 Pitch Deck, was introduced to film industry professionals at Marché du Film. In Cannes, we met with some of the Roma creatives behind the projects selected for this year's Pitch Deck.

Simonida Selimović @simonida7 is the director, writer and one of the producers of the short film "Romabaroness", currently in the post-production phase.Inspired by the historical legacy of Strauss’ The Gypsy Baron, "Romabaroness" shifts the perspective toward a Roma woman reclaiming her own narrative.

New Romani Cinema, ERIAC's 2026 Pitch Deck, is available on www.eriac.org

#ERIAC #marchedufilm #cannes #pitchdeck #eriacpitchdeck

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture expresses its profound sorrow at the passing of Mr. Dumitru Miclescu on 15 May, at the age of 92.

Mr. Miclescu was a Roma Holocaust survivor from Romania and a dedicated advocate for remembrance and historical recognition.

In 2025, he became the first Roma Holocaust survivor from Romania to address the United Nations General Assembly, sharing his testimony on behalf of countless Roma victims of persecution and genocide.

His courage, memory, and commitment to educating younger generations will remain an enduring legacy.

We honor his memory and extend our deepest condolences to his family, community, and all those touched by his life and testimony.

🇷🇴„Caliu: Nicidecum altceva, ce să fac altceva?” pornește la drum în comiunitățile rome din țară în turneul creat împreună cu ERIAC @eriac_org , alături de parteneri locali. Ne întoarcem în comunitate, acolo unde a început povestea lui Caliu și abia așteptăm să ne întâlnim cu voi vara asta în Brăila, Satu Mare, Prahova, Vaslui, Iași, Tulcea și Dâmbovița.

🇺🇸"Caliu: Nothing else, what else can I do? " is hitting the road across the country's Roma communities in a tour created together with ERIAC, alongside local partners. We are returning to the community, right where Caliu's story first began, and we can't wait to meet you all this summer in Brăila, Satu Mare, Prahova, Vaslui, Iași, Tulcea, and Dâmbovița.

🇷🇴„Caliu: Nicidecum altceva, ce să fac altceva?” pornește la drum în comiunitățile rome din țară în turneul creat împreună cu ERIAC @eriac_org , alături de parteneri locali. Ne întoarcem în comunitate, acolo unde a început povestea lui Caliu și abia așteptăm să ne întâlnim cu voi vara asta în Brăila, Satu Mare, Prahova, Vaslui, Iași, Tulcea și Dâmbovița.

🇺🇸"Caliu: Nothing else, what else can I do? " is hitting the road across the country's Roma communities in a tour created together with ERIAC, alongside local partners. We are returning to the community, right where Caliu's story first began, and we can't wait to meet you all this summer in Brăila, Satu Mare, Prahova, Vaslui, Iași, Tulcea, and Dâmbovița.

The ideologies behind Europe’s darkest century have not disappeared, they mutated. That is why May 16 matters: it reminds us of the courage of Roma who stood up for justice and humanity against unimaginable evil.

What May 16 demands of us is not only memory, but architecture: the laws, institutions, and economic foundations that make exclusion impossible to sustain.

Building resilient communities means defending dignity, participation, and human rights in the present and future.

Today, we remember the May 16 uprising while recognising what political survival for Roma in Europe now requires: not only remembrance, but organisation; not only visibility, but power.

#May16 #RomaniResistanceDay

The ideologies behind Europe’s darkest century have not disappeared, they mutated. That is why May 16 matters: it reminds us of the courage of Roma who stood up for justice and humanity against unimaginable evil.

What May 16 demands of us is not only memory, but architecture: the laws, institutions, and economic foundations that make exclusion impossible to sustain.

Building resilient communities means defending dignity, participation, and human rights in the present and future.

Today, we remember the May 16 uprising while recognising what political survival for Roma in Europe now requires: not only remembrance, but organisation; not only visibility, but power.

#May16 #RomaniResistanceDay

The ideologies behind Europe’s darkest century have not disappeared, they mutated. That is why May 16 matters: it reminds us of the courage of Roma who stood up for justice and humanity against unimaginable evil.

What May 16 demands of us is not only memory, but architecture: the laws, institutions, and economic foundations that make exclusion impossible to sustain.

Building resilient communities means defending dignity, participation, and human rights in the present and future.

Today, we remember the May 16 uprising while recognising what political survival for Roma in Europe now requires: not only remembrance, but organisation; not only visibility, but power.

#May16 #RomaniResistanceDay

The ideologies behind Europe’s darkest century have not disappeared, they mutated. That is why May 16 matters: it reminds us of the courage of Roma who stood up for justice and humanity against unimaginable evil.

What May 16 demands of us is not only memory, but architecture: the laws, institutions, and economic foundations that make exclusion impossible to sustain.

Building resilient communities means defending dignity, participation, and human rights in the present and future.

Today, we remember the May 16 uprising while recognising what political survival for Roma in Europe now requires: not only remembrance, but organisation; not only visibility, but power.

#May16 #RomaniResistanceDay

The ideologies behind Europe’s darkest century have not disappeared, they mutated. That is why May 16 matters: it reminds us of the courage of Roma who stood up for justice and humanity against unimaginable evil.

What May 16 demands of us is not only memory, but architecture: the laws, institutions, and economic foundations that make exclusion impossible to sustain.

Building resilient communities means defending dignity, participation, and human rights in the present and future.

Today, we remember the May 16 uprising while recognising what political survival for Roma in Europe now requires: not only remembrance, but organisation; not only visibility, but power.

#May16 #RomaniResistanceDay

The ideologies behind Europe’s darkest century have not disappeared, they mutated. That is why May 16 matters: it reminds us of the courage of Roma who stood up for justice and humanity against unimaginable evil.

What May 16 demands of us is not only memory, but architecture: the laws, institutions, and economic foundations that make exclusion impossible to sustain.

Building resilient communities means defending dignity, participation, and human rights in the present and future.

Today, we remember the May 16 uprising while recognising what political survival for Roma in Europe now requires: not only remembrance, but organisation; not only visibility, but power.

#May16 #RomaniResistanceDay

What happens when buried histories resurface?

Producer Lisa Smith presents Nina’s Legacy, directed by Astrid Bischofberger, a powerful project following young descendants of Sinti and Roma survivors confronting the hidden legacy behind the making of Leni Riefenstahl’s Tiefland.

The ERIAC Film Pitch Deck is now available online via the ERIAC website and presented at the Marché du Film @marchedufilm during the Cannes Film Festival @festivaldecannes . Created to support and spotlight Roma filmmakers and stories in the international film industry, the pitch deck brings together a new generation of bold cinematic projects.

Discover more about Nina’s Legacy and explore the full ERIAC Film Pitch Deck online.

www.eriac.org

#ERIAC #RomaFilm #FilmPitchDeck #Cannes2026 #MarcheDuFilm RomaCinema

Roma are often misrepresented as silent or passive in history, but our story is one of resistance, survival, and strength.

From centuries of struggle to the uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau and beyond, Roma resistance is deeply rooted and ongoing.

May 16 is a call to action: to honor and carry forward the legacy of Roma resistance and turn memory into a force for justice, dignity, and recognition.

Opre Roma!

Animation: Liviu Bărbulescu @liviubarbulescu
Narration: Mihaela Zatreanu @mihaelazatreanu
Music: Penelope Tordai cimbalom performance at the Tajsa Prize 2023 Award Ceremony
Produced by: The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture @eriac_org

#ERIAC #RomaniResistanceDay #May16