19 JUNE 2025
She's not the one, bro
500 Days of Summer + The Notebook
Two perspectives on love, brought together in an evening with a voice of its own.
See the edition in the archive ↗
Projects/ Culture
RECURRING PROGRAMME · CINEMA EUROPA
Volunteers' Thursday
A cinema for a day.
At Cinema Europa, volunteers take turns choosing two films and building an evening around them. They explain their choices, prepare the invitation for the public and try to bring people into the auditorium, with the support of the Europa team.
You choose the films.
You make the case for your idea.
You bring in the audience.
WHY IT EXISTS
From “you have to see this film” to a night at the cinema.
You have two films you wish everyone would see. How do you put them together? Who are you speaking to? What do you write in the invitation? And how do you convince people to come? At Volunteers' Thursday, these questions get an answer in a cinema auditorium.
Through this programme, Susțin gives young people the chance to contribute to a cinema's cultural programme. Their enthusiasm becomes a public selection, and the idea comes with the responsibility of explaining it and carrying it through to the meeting with the audience.
HOW IT WORKS
An idea you carry all the way into the auditorium
01
You choose the films
You propose two films and find the idea that connects them. It can be a theme, a contrast or a very personal reason for wanting to see them together on screen.
02
You build the invitation
You explain why you chose the films and why someone should come to see them. The evening's title, the text and the promotion become part of the experience.
03
You bring people into the auditorium
You take part in promoting the event and in meeting the audience, alongside the Europa team. Your selection becomes an evening other people attend.
With the Europa team alongside
Susțin provides the setting in which the programme happens, through Cinema Europa and its volunteer community. The volunteer proposes and promotes the evening, with the cinema team's support. The exact programme of each edition is announced in the public calendar.
HOW THE INVITATION SOUNDS
They do the promotion, in their own language
The announcements for the screenings are thought up and filmed by volunteers. The humour, the references and the tone come from them, and the audience recognises a personal invitation rather than an institutional poster.
LEARNING BY DOING
Your taste. A real responsibility.
Volunteers' Thursday is a chance to try cultural management in a working cinema, with an audience and a team alongside.
Cultural programming
You choose films for a shared experience and think about what connects them.
Communication
You put an idea into words and find reasons the audience would want to discover it.
Organising
You work with a team and with an event that has a date, a place and an audience.
Initiative
You take ownership of a proposal, stand behind it and see how people respond.
FROM THE PROGRAMME'S ARCHIVE
Every Thursday has someone's voice
From romantic comedies to stories about ambition and personal choices, the selections have taken many forms. A few examples from past editions:
9 OCTOBER 2025
Jazz, Gin & Tragedy
The Great Gatsby + Babylon
A selection about ambition, spectacle and the promises of glory.
See the edition in the archive ↗10 SEPTEMBER 2026
Ioana's pick
The Drama
Ioana proposed a film from her personal top list. An example where the recommendation has an author, not just a title on a poster.
See the edition in the archive ↗
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PROGRAMME
Trust shows in what you leave in their hands.
Volunteers' Thursday is part of a community in which young people contribute to organising and communication. In Școala9's report on Cinema Europa, volunteers speak about the freedom to bring ideas and about the responsibilities they are given.
Read the report ↗“They trust you”
Sara, on volunteering at Cinema Europa · Școala9, Silvia Bușcan, 3 April 2026
POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS · PROPOSALS
From one evening, a portfolio
Two simple things we could add so that each edition's experience stays useful after the screening.
A record for each Thursday
One page per edition: who chose, why they chose the films, the poster and a few images from the evening. Over time, each volunteer could gather their experiences into a portfolio.
15 minutes after the event
A short conversation with the team: what worked, what we learned about the audience and what we would change next time. A simple habit that can make the experience more useful.
These are proposals, not mechanisms already in place.
Which films would you put in a Thursday?
If you want to get involved, the first step is the Susțin volunteer community. If you want to discover their choices, we will see you at Cinema Europa, on Calea Moșilor 127.
Opportunities to programme a Thursday are agreed together with the cinema team.
HOW THIS LINKS TO OUR IMPACT AREAS
Young people learn cultural organising by doing, and the neighbourhood cinema stays a living place, programmed together with its community.