Radu Jude

Jude graduated the filmmaking Department of Media University in 2003. He worked as an assistant director. He directed the short films The Tube with a Hat (2006) (winner of more than 50 international prizes in Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Uppsala etc.), Alexandra (2007) (selected in Clermont-Ferrand, awarded in Ober-hausen) and more than 150 advertising commercials. His debut feature film, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), winner of NHK/Filmmaker Award in Sundance and Hubert Bals grant, was awarded with the CICAE prize in Berlinale-Forum 2009. Everybody in Our Family (2012), his second feature film which premiered in Berlinale-Forum, received the Heart of Sarajevo Film Festival, Le Bayard d’Or for Best Film and Best Actor at Namur IFF, CinEast IFF Grand Prix and was selected in more than 30 film festivals around the world, released in cinemas in France, Holland and Hungary. His two short films Shadow of a Cloud (2013) and It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014) were selected in Cannes - Quinzaine des Realisateurs section. 

World premiered in the 65th Berlinale Competition, Radu Jude’s third feature, Aferim! (2015) was awarded with the Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlin. His fourth feature, Scarred Hearts (2016) received the Special Jury Prize in Locarno Film Festival as well as Don Quijote Award offered by IFSS – International Federation of Film Societies, Silver Astor for Best Director, Signis Award for Best Film in Competition and ADF Award for Best Cinematography in Mar del Plata International Film Festival as well as Special Mention at Haifa IFF.

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