Romanian Cinema

MMXX – first-look review

By David Jenkins

The latest from Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu comprises four salty slices of pandemic-era life which range from the outwardly comic to the overtly grizzly.

R.M.N review – effortless brilliance

By David Jenkins

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns with a superb social realist western with its finger on the erratic pulse of Europe.

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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – first-look review

By Mark Asch

The new film from one of Romania's foremost cine-ironists, Radu Jude, is a glorious, poisonous, everything-in-the-pot treatise on the state of the world today.

Întregalde – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Three aid workers are led on a detour through darkest Transylvania in Radu Muntean’s allegorical intergenerational drama.

The Whistlers

By David Jenkins

Double, triple and quadruple crosses play a part in this lightly-eccentric gangster thriller from a Romanian great.

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Infinite Football

By Adam Woodward

One man’s soccer obsession becomes a humble plea for a better world in Corneliu Porumboiu’s riveting documentary.

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15 years on, the Romanian New Wave is still a force to be reckoned with

By Patrick Gamble

This year’s Transylvania International Film Festival showcased a wealth of homegrown talent.

The best films from the Transylvania International Film Festival 2017

By Patrick Gamble

A film about ‘Stalin’s Space Monkeys’ and a participatory documentary were among the highlights of this year’s festival.

Discover the stomach-turning horrors of this Anne Hathaway baiting thriller

By Anton Bitel

Adrian Tofei goes full psycho-stalker in Be My Cat: A Film for Anne.

The five best films from the Transilvania International Film Festival 2016

By Patrick Gamble

New features from Cristi Puiu and Ali Abbasi brought a gothic flavour to this year’s festival.

Meet the filmmakers redefining the Romanian New Wave

By Dana Knight

Directors like Bogdan Mirică are challenging their national cinema’s austere image.

Graduation – first look review

By David Jenkins

The 2007 Palme d’Or winner returns to Cannes with another gripping and meticulous drama.

Sieranevada – first look review

By David Jenkins

One of the progenitors of the Romanian New Wave returns to the Cannes competition with a rambling family drama.

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