ROMANIA-SERBIA-FILM-HOMOPHOBY-PROTEST

A man holds a leaflet reading "LGBT= Marxism degenerated fundamentalism" during a protest in front of the Romanian Peasant's Museum in Bucharest, Romania on February 8, 2018. Thirty people demonstrated on February 8 in Bucharest in front of the Museum of the Romanian peasant against a film by the Serbian director Ivana Mladenovic, accused of "advertising for homosexuality". Some of the protesters subsequently stopped the screening of the film before being evacuated by the police. An association called St.Georges Orthodox called for "defending the thousand-year-old values ??of the Romanian nation" by protesting against the distribution of the film "Soldati, Poveste din Ferentari" (Soldiers) at the Peasant Museum. This Romanian-Serbian-Belgian co-production released in the cinema in 2017 tells the love story between an anthropologist and an old Roma convent. Sunday evening, protesters had interrupted in the same room the projection of the film "120 beats per minute" directed by Robin Camillo, Grand Prix of the jury at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, a fresco on the AIDS years in France through the fight of the Act Up association. The management of the Museum defended in a statement its decision to broadcast films "without censoring their content" and reminded that "the freedom of expression is one of the main achievements of the Romanian democracy" following the overthrow of the communist regime at the end of 1989. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)