Călin Boto
Film curator, writer and editor, member of the selection committees of BIEFF and Woche der Kritik, FIPRESCI member and alumnus of the film criticism workshops organized by the Sarajevo, Warsaw and Locarno film festivals. Teaches a course on film criticism and analysis at UNATC. He has curated programs for Cinemateca Română, Short Waves, V-F-X Ljubljana, Trieste Film Festival, as well as the Bucharest retrospective of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in 2024 and 2025.

Papas Kino: Three Legendary Filmmakers at Berlinale 2025

Kontinental ’25 by Radu Jude | Kind reminder: It’s Time to Die

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in Bucharest: Interview with Sophia Loren

Kenneth Anger, the last American diva

Il Cinema Ritrovato: Stuck in the 2000s

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023: A travel guide

Footnotes: The many student years of CineMAiubit

Memorial Memory – Charlie and Chaplin

Footnotes: Frame by Frame | An interview with Ruxandra Blaga

Footnotes: Delta Space Mission in 4k

Footnotes: Bucharest, as seen from Bologna

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 – The Ugly Indifferent One

Thalassa, Thalassa: the lost winner of Rotterdam

Enfant terrible. Cinema Tussaud

Stop-Zemlia: I Was There | European Film Festival 2022

The Reenactment, over and over again (II)

The Reenactment, over and over again (I)

Note de subsol: Veronica la 50

Film O’Clock IFF 2022: The same old future

Rotterdam 2022: Where the friend’s home was

Footnotes: Hervé Guibert and Cyrill Collard’s second-to-last lived experiences

Rotterdam 2022: The Wild West of Athens

Footnotes: D’Est – Ward No. 6

Viennale 2021: The Surroundings of a Masterpiece

Márta Mészáros in Bucharest

Viennale: The Witches of the Orient (remix 2o21)

A film such as A Man Like Eva

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021: Archives on legs

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021: Eltávozott nap – Mommy’s Little Girl

Fare thee well, Cannes! The Rise and Fall of Ecaterina Oproiu

Breviary – Film Magazine, 1990

“We’re just like brothers” – a discreet life in pink

Andrei Ujică, Nonfictional Citizen

The Short Path to Forgetfulness: Four films by Paul Călinescu

It’s a Sin. Home, the final stop

The Gestures of Geta Bratescu; on video art in the ’90s

Interview with Radu Igazsag (part II): “People felt that something was going on in that film.”

Last Spring & Nus masculins. Homophile notes

Radu Igazsag: “Too bad all this was happening in the ’80s” (part I)

Whose? Interview with Ion Grigorescu

CVideo. Delphine et Carole, insoumuses

Poppers for the nostalgic: Knife + Heart

Species of Images – the archive and the dailies

¡Que viva Kladovo!

Every Man for Himself | Arrest

Unorthodox uniforms | Heidi

Parking – Where the kitsch pulls over

Monștri., pasivi zi și noapte