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Festival coverage

Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema

27 June – 1 December 2020

A 15-Film Selection of the Landmark Celebrating Auteurs before and after the Romanian New Wave. Films are available to stream in the US along with select additional territories.

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Latest reviews

  • Pororoca
    Review preview for Pororoca

    Popescu's film isn't about loud recriminations but the way that lives can disintegrate by degrees.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Cristina and Tudor Ionescu have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. But when one of their children disappears, their life changes forever.
  • Aferim!
    Review preview for Aferim!

    Jude and Lazarescu also show how the structure of society has a habit of making you conform to it, whatever your intentions - a barbed idea intended to stick in the minds of those who live in today's Europe where the Roma still face wide-spread prejudice

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A policeman and his son hunt a runaway gypsy slave.
  • Of Snails And Men
    Review preview for Of Snails And Men

    Mostly, Of Snails And Men is a light, entertaining comedy.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    When their factory is threatened with closure, a group of men plan to raise the funds to buy it by selling their sperm.
  • The Death Of Mr Lazarescu
    Review preview for The Death Of Mr Lazarescu

    A reminder of what it was like when writer/directors had the freedom to be truthful without fear of being shut down by penny-pinching producers.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The Romanian health service is exposed as a sixtysomething borderline alcoholic progresses through the grim reaper’s waiting room.

Features

  • Learning from history
    Aferim! director Radu Jude on language, prejudice and seeing the past in the present.