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Making Waves Romanian Film Festival Archive 2006-2019

13th Making Waves

Nov 26-Dec 5, 2018
@ BAM & Jacob Burns Film Center

Making Waves 2017

The Romanian Film Initiative, BAMcinématek, and the Jacob Burns Film Center are proud to present the 12th edition of MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema, to take place November 30-December 7, 2017. This edition will mark a change in format, with different and complementary programs presented in the two partner venues. Showcasing the best new releases from November 30- December 7, the Jacob … Continue reading

Making Waves 2016

The Romanian Film Initiative and the Jacob Burns Film Center are proud to present the 11th edition of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema (December 1-8, 2016), the survey that the Wall Street Journal describes as having, “helped define and establish the southeastern European country as a stronghold of socially incisive, independently minded personal cinema.” New Romanian Cinema entered its second decade … Continue reading

Making Waves 2015

MAKING WAVES returned for its special 10th anniversary edition from December 2-7, 2015 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and from 3-8 at the Jacob Burns Film Center, featuring a cross section of narrative features, documentaries, and shorts. Titles fresh from Cannes and Berlin led the slate of features: Corneliu Porumboiu’s crazy fairy tale, The Treasure; … Continue reading

Making Waves 2014

MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema returned for its 9th edition to the Film Society of Lincoln Center from December 4-8, 2014 & December 5-10 at the Jacob Burns Film Center. This year, we aimed to further grow the Romanian film festival, presenting a diverse and compelling 9th edition and also launching new initiatives that advance … Continue reading

Making Waves 2013

MAKING WAVES 2013 took place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from November 29 to December 3. The festival offered the best selection of contemporary Romanian filmmaking, including features, documentaries and shorts, along with retrospectives of Romanian filmmakers, special programs, panels and a book launch. This year the series expanded with a selection of the lineup … Continue reading

Making Waves 2012

For 7 days, 13 feature films, 4 documentaries and 7 shorts were presented in Film Society’s 3 theaters; New releases, retrospectives, special panels dedicated to arts and politics in Eastern Europe; 16 filmmakers, actors, producers, and journalists attended the festival and entered in dialogue with the audience during Q&A sessions and panels; An impressive press … Continue reading

Past Editions 2006 – 2011

Take a stroll down memory lane. MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema continues, in a new configuration, the Romanian Film Festival in NYC, initiated in 2006 and chaired by reputed cultural entrepreneur and cultural policy expert and trainer Corina Suteu, under the artistic direction of Mihai Chirilov. The NYC festival came as a natural acknowledgment of the … Continue reading

Retrospective Reception MW2006-2019

NY Times: Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C.

"In Romania, the democratic reforms that followed the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 also turned the country into a global filmmaking powerhouse, culminating in what has been called the Romanian New Wave."

NYRB: J. Hoberman recommends

"These thirty films also include some of the best made anywhere during the past three decades."

J.B. Spins: “Luxury Hotel” – For fans of dystopian social satire

"Luxury Hotel could have probably only been produced during the immediate post-Ceausescu aftermath, when the palace was available, in all its faded grandeur. It is definitely spectacle, but serious, distinctively pointed spectacle."

MW public – Andrei Codrescu: “In Praise of New Romanian Film”

The New Wave festival returns to New York every year with astonishing new films, alongside a well-curated archive. I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Screenslate: “The Autobiography of N. Ceaușescu”- conceived as a flashback

"And now it is our turn, all these decades later, to be the ones to look and learn."

J.B. Spins: “The Oak” – Deeply compelling cinema

"The Oak is a defiantly bold, chaotically head-spinning indictment of Ceausescu Socialism, but it is also deeply compelling cinema. This is definitely auteurist cinema from Pintilie that still connects on a profoundly human level."

The Criterion Collection: Romanians… in America

"Film Forum will be showcasing thirty Romanian films made during the thirty years since the overthrow and execution of iron-fisted dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu."

„The Romanian New Wave shows no signs of waning, with steady input from such directors as Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, and Cristian Mungiu."

„The former communist country has emerged as a powerhouse of cinema over the last two decades and much has been made about the Romanian New Wave, a genre of naturalistic and unflinching films that have been consistently winning top prizes such as the Palme d’Or in Cannes and awards at the Berlin and Venice festivals.”

The New York Times

„In the last decade, the emergence of a Romanian new wave has been one of the most startling developments in world cinema, with one film after another winning prizes at Cannes and elsewhere.”

The Wall Street Journal

"Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, the annual weeklong survey that has helped define and establish the southeastern European country as a stronghold of socially incisive, independently minded personal cinema.”

The Wall Street Journal

„Romania cinema has gradually become a central component of international film culture."