The MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema annual festival returns at the leading New York film institution from December 4-8, 2014 and will continue its highlights presentation at the Jacob Burns Film Center from December 5-9, informs the official website of the event.
Initiated and co-presented by the Romanian Film Initiative, MAKING WAVES is the only comprehensive US festival dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the best in Romanian contemporary cinema as well as rarely seen classics.
The festival will also continue its critical address of the relationship between arts and politics in Romania and Eastern Europe, through its special program “Creative Freedom through Cinema,” and will focus this year’s screenings and panel conversations on the topic of human rights, notes the same source.
Until now, the 2014 line-up will include Vlad Petri’s Where are You Bucharest?, a poignant documentary about the 2012 street protests; Andrei Gruzsniczki’s Quod Erat Demonstrandum, a feature about treason, compromise and human resilience facing the Securitate’s insidious controlling practices; and The Japanese Dog, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu‘s delicately observed tale about family and globalization.
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The festival has also enjoyed a consistent coverage in the media, from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, through Variety to Indiewire. “Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema is the annual weeklong survey that has helped define and establish the southeastern European country as a stronghold of socially incisive, independently minded personal cinema.” wrote The Wall Street Journal.
Oana Vasiliu