This final paper will analyze the film works of author Radu Jude, known as one of the representatives of the Romanian New Wave from the 2000s to the present day. The recognizable features of his works are based on metafilmicity, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, playful realism with documentary techniques, and a filmic intermedial collage that we read as a kind of result of mixing several types of media within the feature film genre. The focus of the analysis is carried out through two of Jude's film works; his first feature film "The Happiest Girl in the World" (2009), and his latest film "Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World" (2023). Through them, an examination is made of these same features in comparison with Hollywood film conventions, and with the classical definitions and rules applied in most films today. Jude's use of the visual medium and meta-film to explore and comment on Romania's socio-economic problems through ideological and cultural references will be investigated. The data collection method is based on existing literature that includes contemporary academic articles and books by Romanian film scholars, authors and critics from the 2010s and 2020s. This includes film theory and existing interpretations of his works, comments and academic articles by film scholars on his documentarism and metafilmicity, and the recognition of Romanian New Wave features in his works (although they stand out significantly in contrast to other works of that movement). In combination with data and theoretical frameworks from the literature, I study works from Jude's existing opus, guided by my own observations while watching the films, singling out scenes and examples suitable for analysis in the domain of metafilmicity and documentarism of feature films. The aim of this paper is to uncover the characteristic patterns of Radu's poetics, by which, by mixing well-known and engaged social themes with his directorial style and a combination of various media and theories, he achieves successful and recognizable authorial works.