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Irina-Margareta Nistor is a Romanian film critic, editor, and television presenter. Since 1980, she has translated films screened at the Romanian Cinematheque. During the communist regime, she worked as a translator for the Romanian Television (TVR) and became widely known for secretly dubbing more than 3,000 films over a five-year period. These films, recorded on VHS tapes and brought in from the West, gave many Romanians access to international cinema during the communist era. Throughout her career, she has translated more than 70 books and plays into and from Romanian. Since the 2000s, she has attended numerous prestigious European film festivals, including the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), the Cannes Film Festival, and the Venice International Film Festival.