Making Waves returns in-person March 2023 to a network of NYC Cinemas: IFC Center, Roxy Cinema and more

It’s been a while since the hybrid 16th edition of the festival in December 2021/March 2022, as the ‘winds of change’ have been blowing in our direction, too, due to the post pandemic realities and the war at Romania’s borders.

We have been working hard these last months and we are now happy to announce that the 17th edition of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema will return to in-person screenings in the second half of March 2023, in a network of New York City venues, to include IFC Center, Roxy Cinema, and more (to be announced). We plan to bring over a fine selection of recent Romanian productions, along with a full retrospective of director Cristian Mungiu, prior to the U.S. release of his most recent film, R.M.N.

For this edition, we will not return to our long-term partner, the Jacob Burns Film Center, which went recently through a major shift. Our supporter and friend Brian Ackerman, director of programming, was forced to leave the institution, together with other amazing people we collaborated with along the years. Working on a Romanian film season without Brian is not the same, so we decided for this edition to turn a page and move the festival exclusively to NYC venues.

In the last 16 years, since Making Waves started, the Romanian film industry diversified, embracing a great variety of genres and enriching the group of film talents. It is also due to the strong and sustainable interest shown internationally for the Romanian cinema that we go on with our festival.

We will follow up in December with more details. Until then, we kindly ask for your support to make this post-pandemic return to New York City a blast. Details on how you can donate are available here.

Looking forward to seeing everybody live in March 2023.