Between Silence and Sin

In one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships, poetry represented the last molecules of freedom and the poets that dared to speak the truth became icons – and enemies of the state. Romanian Ana Blandiana, one of Europe’s most important yet overlooked poets, is a symbol in the fight for democracy and freedom of speech, values again under threat around the world. She resisted persecution and censorship during the Communist regime, with her poems used as a form of resistance, anonymously handwritten and circulated underground. Since the 1989 revolution, she has worked to create a new civil organization and founded the first-ever memorial and museum to the victims of Communism -- all the while enduring disinformation and attacks in the press from those in power and the media.A history refracted through poetry, BETWEEN SILENCE AND SIN explores the power of the word as the last bastion of a nation’s collective soul in the face of oppression.