The Keeper of the Flame In every culture, there are keepers of the flame—those who carry the memory of a people across generations, adapting it to new languages, new screens, and new worlds. In Romania, one of those keepers is Corneliu Țepeluș, a filmmaker, storyteller, and cultural ambassador whose life has been shaped by the timeless human pursuit of immortality—not the kind that denies death, but the kind that ensures meaning endures. His work bridges the mystical and the

There’s something about Transylvania that you can’t quite capture in a photograph or even in words. The mountains stand heavy with shadow, as though they’ve been keeping watch for centuries. Forests stretch deep and dark, with paths that feel like they’ve been walked a thousand times before you ever set foot there. The castles rise out of the landscape like stone guardians, carrying both history and legend in their bones. It’s no wonder this land has been woven into stories f