Co-organized by the Asian Film Awards Academy and Broadway Cinematheque, two “Film Craft Workshops: Radu Jude” have been successfully concluded.  We are honored to have the speaker Radu Jude and the guest Avi Mograbi to attend the online workshop, one in Romania and another in Israel, they describe their unique understanding of film and how to examine their own country’s history, as well as the difficulties encountered in filming in a turbulent environment.  In the session of university, Radu Jude also told the students to do more research, accumulate life experiences, learn more about different cultures, and better experience all kinds of different life.

Throughout their careers, Radu Jude and Avi Mograbi have been dubbed “unpatriotic” because of their insistence in steering away or even undermining the tub-thumping historical narratives in their own countries. Jude, for example, has spent the past decade decrying the petty provincialism and racism ingrained into Romanian society from the 19th century to the 21st. Mograbi, meanwhile, has been ceaseless in his criticism about the Israeli government’s state-sanctioned violence towards its own Arab population and also Palestinians in the occupied territories. Just as importantly, they have been exploring new aesthetic and ethical approaches in tackling these issues as well.