About alina

 

“I want to tell stories that will bring even the smallest seed of good in the world. This is why I do what I do.“

ALINA’S WORK

actress

Award-winning actress for “Seule a mon mariage”

director

Romania’s first Roma woman director

UNTOLD STORIES

Artistic company

writer

Roma political theatre pioneer since 2009

ARTivist

Using art to fight discrimination

mediA

Seule à mon mariage / Alone at My Wedding

Alina Șerban’s first lead role in a feature film. The film premiered at Cannes International Film Festival 2018 (ACID selection) and won numerous awards for Best Film and Best Actress.

The Great Shame / Marea Rușine

The first play about the taboo topic of Roma slavery and the first play ever written and directed by a Roma woman in Romania, Alina Șerban.

I Declare at My Own Risk

Alina Serban’s autobiographical one-woman-show which pioneered a new type of theatre in Romania, the Roma feminist political theatre.

Seule a mon mariage/Alone at my Wedding

Alina Șerban’s first lead role in a feature film. The film premiered at Cannes International Film Festival 2018 (ACID selection) and won numerous awards for Best Film and Best Actress.

The Great Shame / Marea Rușine

The first play on the taboo topic of Roma slavery and the first play ever written and directed by a Roma woman in Romania, Alina Serban

I Declare at My Own Risk / Declar pe propria răspundere

Alina Serban’s autobiographical one-woman-show which pioneered a new type of theatre in Romania, the Roma feminist political theatre.

press

“A special mention for the interpretation goes to Serban for the film ‘Alone at my wedding’ by Marta Bergman, for the ability to drag the viewer with the strength and power of her never banal interpretation. In this way, the actress transmits her emotions at all levels to the viewer without being distracted by the story. Alina Serban plays Pamela, a young Roma different from all the others in her community.”

Rome Independent Film Festival 2018 – Press release

“The RCI has a wonderfully tiny stage – just about room for a one-woman performance – and Șerban filled it: she was wonderful to watch and held the audience spellbound. […] Works like Șerban’s not only bring prejudices to the fore, but provide a new language for those of us – probably the majority of us – who have unwittingly consumed and reproduce these myths and prejudices about the Roma community – and help us to see the Roma community not as ‘other’ but as us.”

Central and Eastern European London Review – Roma Journey: Alina Serban’s ‘I Declare at My Own Risk’

“[…] Serban gives an excellent performance as a woman caught between her thirst for freedom and the limitations imposed on her as a foreigner and single mother.”

The Hollywood Reporter – Alone at My Wedding (Seule à Mon Mariage) Film Review | Cannes 2018

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