WOMEN DIRECTORS TAKE THE STAGE: Acclaimed films by Adina Pintilie, Ivana Mladenovic, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Ana Dumitrescu, and the 2017 director in focus Anca Damian, highlight a new wave of films by women directors.
DIRECTOR IN FOCUS: RADU JUDE. The festival’s 13th edition highlights the darkly satirical work of internationally acclaimed auteur Radu Jude, whose career-long concerns with Jewish identity and the darkest chapters of Romanian history crescendo in his latest tour-de-force, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.”
THE BEST OF THE YEAR SHOWCASE at the Jacob Burns Film Center spotlights the ever-growing diversity of the New Romanian Cinema.