A graduate of both UNATC Bucharest and the National Film and Television School in the UK, Roxana’s work explores characters living under social, ideological, or emotional pressure, often through a restrained visual language where silence, gesture, and atmosphere carry what remains unspoken.

Her Berlinale-winning short A Night in Tokoriki received the Generation 14+ Jury Prize and screened at over 100 festivals worldwide, including San Sebastián, Karlovy Vary, Edinburgh, and AFI FEST.

Her follow-up short Appalachia was selected for Euro Connection at Clermont-Ferrand, supported by CNC and Wallonie-Bruxelles Images, and acquired by Canal+.

Her NFTS graduation film They Made You into a Weapon and Told You to Find Peace, developed through European Short Pitch, screened at Kyiv Molodist and EnergaCAMERIMAGE.                                                                                      

Across her films, Roxana is drawn to enclosed worlds and communities governed by rigid belief systems and inherited traditions. Her stories often follow young people confronting questions of identity, belonging, and personal freedom within environments that resist change.

Her debut feature Houses Are Silent continues this exploration on a larger scale. The project has already been selected for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum at San Sebastián and Ventana Sur-Proyecta in Buenos Aires, and is now being developed as an international co-production between Romania, Switzerland, Germany and Uruguay.