At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu won the Camera d'Or best-first-feature award for '' 12:08 East of Bucharest '' ( aka '' A fost sau n-a fost ? '' ) and Cătălin Mitulescu ( '' The Way I Spent the End of the World '' ) competed in the '' Un Certain Regard '' section . In 2007 , Cristian Nemescu 's posthumous '' California Dreamin ' '' won the prize in the '' Un Certain Regard '' section , while Mungiu 's '' 4 Months , 3 Weeks and 2 Days '' received the Palme d'Or in the Cannes film festival - the first time a Romanian filmmaker won that prize . At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Marian Crișan 's '' Megatron '' won the Palme d'Or for short film . In 2009 '' Katalin Varga '' with British film director Peter Strickland won the New Talent Pix Award on the CPH : Pix film festival . In 2010 , '' If I Want to Whistle , I Whistle '' ( aka '' Eu când vreau să fluier , fluier '' ) directed by Florin Șerban won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear . '' The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu '' by director Andrei Ujică , which tells the story of the former dictator based on 1000 hours footage from his own television archives , was shown Out of Competition at Cannes in 2010 , when Corneliu Porumboiu 's '' Police , Adjective '' ( '' Politist , adjectiv '' ) won the '' Un Certain Regard '' prize . And in 2013 the Golden Bear of Berlin went to '' Child 's Pose '' ( '' Pozitia copilului '' ) directed by Calin Peter Netzer
2008 Cannes Film Festival
2008 Cannes Film Festival
Cinema of Romania