Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, is the last person to witness her sister disappearing before her eyes. Torn ...

BUCHAREST: Romanian director Mihai Mincan’s sophomore feature Milk Teeth / Dinți de lapte has been acquired by Cercamon before its world premiere in the Orizzonti competition of the 82nd Venice Film ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...

Romania's first elected president after communism, Ion Iliescu, was buried Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. A religious ceremony was held at the presidential Cotroceni Palace before ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revolution ...

FILE - Romanian President Ion Iliescu speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Bucharest Romania in this Nov. 9, 2004.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File) BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu ...