---
name: "Dana Bunescu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dana-bunescu"
fi1m_id: "dana-bunescu"
imdb_id: "nm1274442"
tmdb_id: 20700
wikidata_id: "Q28799895"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "11 September 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 87
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T18:16:31.121456+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dana Bunescu

## Identity

Dana Bunescu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dana-bunescu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dana-bunescu
- **IMDb ID:** nm1274442
- **TMDB ID:** 20700
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28799895
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Bunescu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28799895, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1274442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20700

Editor. Born 11 September 1969 in Craiova, Romania.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 11 September 1969, Craiova, Romania
- **Active:** 2007–2019
- **Also known as:** Дана Бунеску, Dana Lucretia Bunescu
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 91 (1), 2010s 85 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 87 to 85 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Documentary 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Bunescu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28799895, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1274442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20700

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days*](https://film.one/film/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days.md) (91), [*Collective*](https://film.one/film/collective.md) (88)

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## Biography

Dana Bunescu is a Romanian film editor and sound editor. Born on 11 September 1969 in Craiova, she studied physics at the University of Bucharest before training in multimedia, editing and sound at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) in Bucharest.

She is known for her work on key films of the Romanian New Wave, including editing and sound editing on Cristian Mungiu’s *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007) and *Tales from the Golden Age* (2009). Other notable credits include sound design on *Beyond the Hills* (2012) and *Aferim!* (2015), and both editing and sound design on Călin Peter Netzer’s *Ana, My Love* (2017).

Bunescu received the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival for *Ana, My Love* and has won multiple Gopo and UCIN awards for editing and sound.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, romaniadenota10.ro.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Collective* (2019), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/collective.md)
- *Beyond the Hills* (2012), Fi1m 82, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/beyond-the-hills.md)
- *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007), Fi1m 91, Editor, Sound Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days.md)

## Complete filmography (55)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *TWST / Things We Said Today* (2025), Sound, Editor
- *Cameras Do Not Record Such Things* (2024), Editor
- *Document 56* (2024), Editor
- *Holy Week* (2024), Editor
- *Familiar* (2023), Editor
- *Boxing with Myself* (2023), Editor
- *The Island* (2023), Editor
- *The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters* (2022), Director
- *Omul cu umbra* (2022), Editorial Consultant
- *Lebensdorf* (2022), Editor
- *Șoapte* (2021), Music
- *Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn* (2021), Sound Designer
- *The Exit of the Trains* (2020), Sound, Sound Designer
- *Otto the Barbarian* (2020), Editor
- *Uppercase Print* (2020), Sound Designer
- *Punish and Discipline* (2019), Sound Designer
- *The Distance Between Me and Me* (2019), Director
- *Collective* (2019), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/collective.md)
- *Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time* (2018), Sound Designer, Editor, ADR Recordist
- *The Marshal's Two Executions* (2018), Sound Designer
- *I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians* (2018), as Sound Designer
- *One and a Half Prince* (2018), Editor
- *Morski Briz* (2018), Editor
- *The Dead Nation* (2017), Sound Designer, Sound Editor
- *Ana, My Love* (2017), Editor, Sound Designer
- *Scarred Hearts* (2016), Sound Designer
- *Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter* (2015), Editor
- *Aferim!* (2015), as Innkeeper's Wife · Sound
- *It Can Pass Through the Wall* (2014), Sound Editor
- *The Second Game* (2014), Sound Editor
- *Carmen* (2013), Editor
- *When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism* (2013), Editor
- *Shadow of a Cloud* (2013), Sound Designer
- *Child's Pose* (2013), Editor
- *Beyond the Hills* (2012), Sound Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/beyond-the-hills.md)
- *Everybody in Our Family* (2012), Sound Designer
- *Here...I Mean There* (2012), Editor
- *The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu* (2010), Editor
- *The Belly of the Whale* (2010), Editor
- *The Other Irene* (2009), Sound, Editor
- *Tales from the Golden Age* (2009), Editor
- *Crossing Dates* (2008), Editor
- *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days* (2007), Editor, Sound Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days.md)
- *California Dreamin'* (2007), Sound Editor
- *Alexandra* (2006), Sound
- *Love Sick* (2006), Sound
- *The Death of Mr. Lazarescu* (2005), Editor
- *Cigarettes and Coffee* (2004), Editor, Sound
- *The Pharaoh* (2004), Sound
- *Horoscopul chinezesc* (2000), Assistant Sound Designer
- *Diabolique 3* (1999), Sound, Editor
- *Aproximativ 4 minute de poveste* (1997), Actor
- *The Ring* (1984), Sound
- *Stone memory*, Sound
- *Vagina Dentata*, Editor

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 2017: Outstanding Artistic Contribution (won), for *Ana, mon amour*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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