Romanian New Wave

Romanian New Wave

8 Episodes

Through a mix of razor-sharp realism and pitch-black humor, the films of the Romanian New Wave turn everyday dilemmas into gripping moral dramas. Provocatively merging the personal and the political, leading directors like Cristi Puiu (THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU), Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST), and Cristian Mungiu (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS) confront the legacy of Communism and the messy transition that followed Nicolae Ceaușescu’s authoritarian regime, revealing the lingering bureaucratic absurdities and indignities that continue to shape day-to-day life and its endless ethical choices. Made with modest means but unmistakable assuredness, these powerful, unsparing works are models of minimalist filmmaking at its most urgent and alive.

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Romanian New Wave

8 Episodes

  • Romanian New Wave Teasaer
    01:03
    Romanian New Wave Teasaer
    Episode 1

    Romanian New Wave Teasaer

    Episode 1

  • 12:08 East of Bucharest
    1:29:26
    12:08 East of Bucharest
    Episode 2

    12:08 East of Bucharest

    Episode 2

    Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2006 • Romania
    Starring Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru

    Winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for best first film, Corneliu Porumboiu’s debut feature is a dryly comic exploration of the often slippery relationship between history, truth, and memory. On...

  • Aurora
    3:03:41
    Aurora
    Episode 3

    Aurora

    Episode 3

    Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2010 • Romania
    Starring Cristi Puiu, Clara Vodǎ, Valeria Seciu

    Director Cristi Puiu’s follow-up to his Romanian New Wave landmark THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU is a mesmerizingly tense, daringly minimalist crime thriller infused with a creeping existential dread. The direc...

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    2:34:16
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    Episode 4

    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

    Episode 4

    Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2005 • Romania
    Starring Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminița Gheorghiu, Doru Ana

    Hailed as one of the defining works of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Cristi Puiu’s unflinching, darkly comic bureaucratic nightmare heralded the arrival of the Romanian New Wave as a major cine...

  • Sieranevada
    2:53:21
    Sieranevada
    Episode 5

    Sieranevada

    Episode 5

    Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2016 • Romania
    Starring Mimi Brǎnescu, Judith State, Bogdan Dumitrache

    Romanian New Wave leader Cristi Puiu continues to blend the personal and the political to arresting effect in this sprawling, drolly comic family portrait that doubles as an existential X-ray of cont...

  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    1:53:16
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Episode 6

    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

    Episode 6

    Directed by Cristian Mungiu • 2007 • Romania
    Starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov

    Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu shot to international prominence with this rigorously realistic Palme d’Or–winning second feature. In 1987, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, colle...

  • Police, Adjective
    1:54:58
    Police, Adjective
    Episode 7

    Police, Adjective

    Episode 7

    Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2009 • Romania
    Starring Dragoş Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Sǎulescu

    Director Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST) interrogates the ways in which draconian authority, bureaucracy, and even language continue to shape life in post-Communist Romania in this mor...

  • Tuesday, After Christmas
    1:39:57
    Tuesday, After Christmas
    Episode 8

    Tuesday, After Christmas

    Episode 8

    Directed by Radu Muntean • 2010 • Romania
    Starring Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu

    One of the central figures to emerge from the cinema of the Romanian New Wave, director Radu Muntean has created in TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS a tense, emotionally resonant drama about a middle-aged m...

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