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  12:08 East of Bucharest

  12:08 East of Bucharest

  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...

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  Aurora

  Aurora

  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...

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  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

  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...