Romania has existed for a long time in the film world, dating back from the early 1900s to present day. Romanian cinema has progressed a lot to get to where it is today.
Writing/Content.
The films of Romania make use of writing in a unique and innovative way in the Romanian New Wave. The new wave consists of realists and minimalists genre. The films tend to be set in the 1980s and go into the themes of freedom and resilience that go against the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu who caused problems in Romania at the time. The films show and go against what happened in the Romanian Revolution in 1989. The writing through the Romanian New Wave brought a voice to the people to bring out their true emotions on how they felt about what was going on in the country.
“12:08 East of Bucharest”
Cinematography.
Romanian Cinematography is used effectively. The films tend to be minimalistic. Films in Romania are not well funded but the minimalistic use of shots bring out the reality of what Romania is- a country that is rebuilding itself, bringing in an impact with what is in frame in the films. Most often times, the films will be shot on location to shoot the real world of Romania, with choice of framing in the films it portrays the city as a character that relates to the other characters in the film. It shows how the city and the people are one where they are all just trying to get by. Romanian films tend to have long shots with movement to bring intimacy with the audience where we feel like we are there and experiencing what the characters are experiencing in the scene.
“Marilena from P7”
Production Design.
Romanian films production technique would be minimalistic. An example of this would be in most of the movies that are produced in the Romanian New Wave. The film community would go with a minimalistic production due to how the country is, on how it is rebuilding. Often times films will be shot on location and the films would be set in modern day or late 1980. This is to show different times of Romania. In 1980s it would be to voice out their emotions to go against the the dictator at the time. Films would tend to show the lower and middle class of Romania taking after the Italian NeoRealism era. The reason to this is to show that there weren’t many high class problems, and that the people that needed to be heard were the lower and middle class in the Romanian New Wave.
Romanian Cinema 