Every year, I return home for the winter holidays to be with my family. This time, I chose to spend more time within the places and communities where tradition is still lived, not performed. On December 26th, I travelled to Comănești, where the Bear Festival unfolds each year as a powerful and ancestral ritual. I wanted to document these events more intensely and to be closer to the people who carry this tradition forward — to feel the rhythm, the energy, and the emotion that