Street Delivery and Urban Eye Film Festival in Reșița

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We are delighted to be co-organizers for the Street Delivery and Urban Eye Film Festival pilot editions dedicated to the Fantastic Funicular, in Resita at the end of July! The program and more details will be available soon at the Resita Virtual Museum.

Press Release

The Fantastic Funicular: The Last Year in Old Clothes

Reșița to Host Pilot Editions of Street Delivery and UrbanEye Film Festival

Reșița, July 4, 2024

From July 26 to 28, 2024, Reșița will host, for the first time, the Street Delivery and UrbanEye Film Festival under the project “The Fantastic Funicular: The Last Year in Old Clothes.” The event is part of the Reșița 250LAB initiative and is organized by MKBT and the Art in Dialogue Association, in partnership with various local and national organizations.

The Fantastic Funicular will bring the Reșița community together around the city’s most iconic industrial heritage structure before it undergoes restoration and conversion to a new function: a new axis of mobility (pedestrian and cycling) connecting the city center and the surrounding hills.

Under the Street Delivery format, MKBT and its partners will organize guided tours, interactive workshops for youth and children, artist-led interventions from across the country, exhibitions, and public debates on the valorization of local industrial heritage, mobility perspectives, co-governance, and more.

“For many years, we’ve wanted to bring conversations about the city’s transformation closer to the people, more into the streets. It’s no coincidence that we chose to start Street Delivery Reșița, an event we hope will become recurring, dedicating this first edition to the funicular; 2024 could be its last year in rust before its renovation and conversion into a new promenade space. What a fantastic opportunity to invite the Reșița community around the funicular, to make its history known, and to debate its new purpose for the city and its residents!” said Marina Neagu, MKBT.

The UrbanEye Film Festival, a unique project dedicated to film, architecture, and urbanism, brings to Reșița a series of outdoor film screenings in the pedestrian area of the Civic Center, guided tours in the industrial area, and a rich program of events dedicated to children and youth. The list of events for children includes architecture workshops and an urban education show with the help of music. For young people and teenagers, there will be a heritage and urban exploration workshop through film.

“Reșița is a city in transformation. We want to contribute to this process by bringing together residents and understanding the transformative stages of the city and the direction it is heading. We believe that cultural activities in public spaces are a good way to make these things happen,” said Monica Sebestyen, co-founder of the UrbanEye Film Festival.

The project “The Fantastic Funicular: The Last Year in Old Clothes” is co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration and the Reșița City Hall. Among the event’s partners are the Banatul Montan Community Foundation, the Amateur Filmmaker Museum, D Project, We Wilder, Bike Attack, Encore Association, Dash Film SRL, and De-a Arhitectura.

The program will be published on July 20. More details about the event and project: www.mkbt.ro and www.urbaneye.ro


Reșița 250LAB is an urban innovation laboratory initiated by MKBT, acting as a catalyst for a testing and implementation ecosystem for urban regeneration actions in Reșița. For over 10 years, MKBT has been working systematically, in networks, to preserve, valorize, and promote Reșița’s industrial heritage. More details at www.mkbt.ro

The UrbanEye Film Festival brings together complementary activities that promote the approach to city and urban life themes through film. The goal is to raise awareness and debate current issues related to the built environment that directly or indirectly influence our daily lives. At the same time, the project succeeds in bringing together professional perspectives and different topics to view the complexity of cities from various angles. The festival had its first edition in Bucharest in 2014. In 2022, the UrbanEye Cluj-Napoca edition was initiated, a project that continues uninterrupted, just like the capital edition. UrbanEye also means film evenings organized across the country throughout the year.

Street Delivery is a manifesto event that advocates for face-to-face human interaction, not bumper-to-bumper, for sustainable, inclusive cities rich in public spaces and green infrastructure, for people’s enjoyment. Street Delivery has been recurring for 17 years in Bucharest, gradually joined by other cities in the country. Street Delivery is an event initiated in Bucharest by the Cărturești Foundation and replicated in the country by NGOs and local initiative groups. More details at www.street.delivery


The project, realized with the support of the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN), does not necessarily represent the position of AFCN. AFCN is not responsible for the project’s content or how the project’s results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.

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