Ambassadors promoting intercultural dialogue

In an interview conducted by Jean-Claude Vantroyen, the French director Radu Mihaileanu explains his mission as ambassador in the context of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID). He is one of seven ambassadors who have been named by the European Commission to prompt cultural exchange across Europe. "To travel all over Europe in order to reinforce communities' sense of their richness, culture, identity, to plead in favour of other cultures and other identities. ... We ambassadors are the go-betweens, ferrymen, guides. "[I feel like a go-between] as an artist and because I have a fortunate background. I was born in Romania; I am French, as well as Jewish, European and universal. ... It is good that Europe is calling upon artists, rather than bureaucrats. We artists are used to working with people, to listening to them to, bringing them together and reinforcing their richness."

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