{"id":34839,"date":"2026-09-11T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=34839"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:12:10","slug":"i-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/i-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"I Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I Matter,&#8221; the debut feature film by director Alina \u0218erban, premiered on September 8 at the Venice International Film Festival in the Venice Spotlight section, making her the first Roma female director in the festival&#8217;s official selection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film follows Rebeca, a young Roma woman preparing to leave her care center, hoping to find stability through her father&#8217;s release from prison, but faces challenges in her transition to independent life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film, a Romania-Germany-Belgium co-production, will be released in Romanian cinemas in February 2027 and is also competing for the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut and the Audience Award in the Venice Spotlight section.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alina \u0218erban, prima regizoare de etnie rom\u0103 prezent\u0103 \u00een selec\u021bia oficial\u0103 a Festivalului de Film de la Vene\u021bia. In: Culturala duba. 10.09.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/culturaladuba.ro\/alina-serban-prima-regizoare-de-etnie-roma-prezenta-in-selectia-oficiala-a-festivalului-de-film-de-la-venetia\/\">https:\/\/culturaladuba.ro\/alina-serban-prima-regizoare-de-etnie-roma-prezenta-in-selectia-oficiala-a-festivalului-de-film-de-la-venetia\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alina \u0218erban, prima regizoare de etnie rom\u0103 inclus\u0103 \u00een selec\u021bia oficial\u0103 a Festivalului de la Vene\u021bia. In: Radio Romania Cultural. 10.09.2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioromaniacultural.ro\/sectiuni-articole\/teatru-si-film\/alina-serban-prima-regizoare-de-etnie-roma-inclusa-in-selectia-oficiala-a-festivalului-de-la-venetia-id55016.html\">https:\/\/www.radioromaniacultural.ro\/sectiuni-articole\/teatru-si-film\/alina-serban-prima-regizoare-de-etnie-roma-inclusa-in-selectia-oficiala-a-festivalului-de-la-venetia-id55016.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I Matter,&#8221; the debut feature film by director Alina \u0218erban, premiered on September 8 at the Venice International Film Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[595,14,15,605],"tags":[637,211],"class_list":["post-34839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","category-romania","tag-festival","tag-movie"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34844,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions\/34844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}