The Romanian New Wave

The Romanian New Wave

Emerging at the turn of the millennium, the Romanian New Wave reinvigorated Eastern European cinema. With the likes of Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Radu Jude collecting awards from Europe’s top festivals, heads were soon turned to this remarkable domestic industry. Characterised initially by handheld realism and sharp social commentary, New Wave directors soon began to experiment formally as they found new ways to dissect their home country’s post-communist malaise.

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The Romanian New Wave
  • I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
    I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
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    I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

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    Directed by Radu Jude • 2018 • Romania

    Radu Jude’s incendiary assault on nationalist myth-making and historical hypocrisy represents a high point in one of Romanian cinema’s most compelling careers. This meta-fictional film follows theatre director Mariana (Ioana Iacob) as she attempts to stage...

  • Ana, mon amour
    Ana, mon amour
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    Ana, mon amour

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    Directed by Călin Peter Netzer • 2017 • Romania

    From Berlinale-winning director Călin Peter Netzer (Child’s Pose), this intricate and intimate dissection of a long-term relationship is one of the most striking Romanian films of the 2010s. Charting the heady highs and agonising lows of the romanc...

  • The Tube with a Hat
    The Tube with a Hat
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    The Tube with a Hat

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    Directed by Radu Jude • 2006 • Romania

    Radu Jude’s debut short announced a major filmmaking talent to the world back in 2006, winning at Sundance and Cottbus. A father and son haul a battered old TV set through mud and rain to the nearest town, hoping to get it fixed in time for a Bruce Lee film...

  • Plastic Semiotic
    Plastic Semiotic
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    Plastic Semiotic

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    Directed by Radu Jude • 2021 • Romania

    Radu Jude is at his mischievous best in this striking short that sets out to tell the story of human life – from birth to old age – entirely through carefully constructed dioramas of childrens’ toys. Barbie dolls and plastic dinosaurs coexist with communist...

  • The Potemkinists
    The Potemkinists
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    The Potemkinists

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    Directed by Radu Jude • 2023 • Romania

    The Potemkinists crams everything we love about Radu Jude into 18 minutes: playful deconstruction of national myth, deep knowledge of film history, and plenty of satirical obscenity. In 2021, a sculptor (Alexandru Dabija) brings a cultural bureaucrat (Crist...

  • The Marshal’s Two Executions
    The Marshal’s Two Executions
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    The Marshal’s Two Executions

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    Directed by Radu Jude • 2018 • Romania

    In 1946, Romania’s wartime dictator and Nazi collaborator Marshal Ion Antonescu was executed, alongside three other officials. The incident was captured by amateur cameraman Ovidiu Gologan. In 1994, director Sergiu Nicolaescu recreated the scene for his per...

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