15th Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema
February 18-24, 2021 | ONLINE IN THE U.S.
Co-presented with the Jacob Burns Film Center
Co-presented with the Jacob Burns Film Center
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In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian music club called Colectiv, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action to uncover massive corruption in the health system and other state institutions. Following journalists, whistle-blowers, and government officials, collective is an immersive and uncompromising look into the price of corruption and the price of truth. Continue reading
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Available Feb 18, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 20 at 10:00 ONLY
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The Campaign
U.S. Premiere! Followed by pre-recorded interview with filmmaker Marian Crișan
A quiet tractor driver from a small town meets a high profile politician whose car broke down nearby and welcomes him into his house until the vehicle gets fixed. Under investigation for corruption, the politician runs for a seat in the European Parliament that will grant him immunity. He seizes the opportunity... Continue reading
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Available Feb 19, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 21 at 10:00 ONLY
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Malmkrog
A landowner places his snow-bound manor house at the disposal of some friends: a politician, a young countess, a Russian General and his wife. For the guests, time goes by slowly, with rich meals, society games and long talks about death and the Antichrist, progress and morality. As the discussion takes shape and the various topics are broached... Continue reading
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Available Feb 20, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 22 at 10:00 ONLY
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House of Dolls
U.S. Premiere! Followed by pre-recorded conversation with Tudor Platon
First time director Tudor Platon is granted access to a special universe: the annual vacation of a bunch of 70-year-old ladies. Far from men and the madness of daily life, Cica, Nana and their two other friends isolate themselves voluntarily in a villa in the countryside... Continue reading
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Available Feb 21, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 23 at 10:00 ONLY
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Ivana the Terrible
U.S. Virtual Screening Premiere. Followed by interview with Ivana Mladenović
Ivana Mladenović is a Romanian director born in Serbia who made headlines with a tabu-breaker debut called Soldiers. Triggered by a personal crisis from when the director was finishing this provocative first feature and made right after it, almost like a therapy session, Ivana the Terrible is a playful exercise in vulnerability and narcissism... Continue reading
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Available Feb 22, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 24 at 10:00 ONLY
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Legacy
U.S. Premiere! Followed by a pre-recorded conversation with actress Irina Rădulescu
When a famous pianist goes missing, the policeman who takes over the case gradually learns about the artist's troubled destiny, his bizarre relationships and the decisions that triggered a whirl of surprising events. We get to meet his circle of workers and close friends, his lover and his worried sister who reported the disappearance... Continue reading
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Available Feb 23, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 25 at 10:00 ONLY
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Acasă, My Home
For two decades, nine kids and their parents lived freely in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world. When the authorities decide to claim back this rare urban ecosystem, the family is told to resettle in the city and kids that used to spend their days in nature have to learn about city life. Awarded in Sundance... Continue reading
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Available Feb 24, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 26 at 10:00 ONLY
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The Christmas Gift
In the midst of the December 1989 Romanian Revolution, a father’s quiet evening turns to sheer nightmare as he finds out that his son wrote and mailed a letter to Santa Clause asking for the death of Ceaușescu, no less.
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Available Feb 19, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 25 at 10:00 ONLY
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Sandals
The bigger-than-life true story of a Romanian “Phileas Fogg”, who took on a challenge to travel around the globe in a thirteen-year journey, becomes a meticulously animated moral lesson about perseverance in the face of loss.
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Celed
A father offers his 7-year-old boy to a shepherd as a helper, but on the first day of work, he loses a sheep. The desperate search that follows turns this fable set in present-day Romania into a harsh and coming-of-age story.
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Sorrow
After many years of living abroad, Eli comes home to attend her mother's cremation. The family reunion brings out old misunderstandings and unresolved differences in this stylish and darkly humorous melodrama.
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Bucharest Seen from Above
A charming old lady (played by pop star Marina Voica) needs to be taken to the elderly care home. A cloud of guilt begins to engulf the sunny Bucharest sky when the family members realise what they are about to do.
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Sașa and Petre
Sașa talks about his convoluted 45-year long relationship with Petre in a time when homosexuality was criminalised, in this surprising and inventive mix of documentary and stop-motion animation.
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Available Feb 19, 2021 at 10:00 am - Feb 25 at 10:00 ONLY
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