Radu Jude

Radu Jude

Radu Jude (Romania, 1977) graduated from the filmmaking department of Media University in 2003. He directed a series of short films, including The Tube with a Hat (2006) (winner of more than 50 international prizes at Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Uppsala etc.) and Alexandra (2007).

His debut feature film, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), (winner of NHK/Filmmaker Award in Sundance and Hubert Bals grant), was awarded the CICAE prize in Berlinale Forum 2009. It was selected at more than 50 film festivals, including Toronto and MoMA's New Directors/New Films. The film was released in cinemas in France, UK, Austria and Spain.

Jude was awarded the Best Director, Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Aferim! It was also elected to represent Romania for the 2016 Academy Awards. He quickly followed with the critically-acclaimed, "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians", which was called "darkly comic" by the Hollywood Reporter.

He is a prolific filmmaker and considered one of contemporary Europe's most distinctive creators.

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Radu Jude
  • Aferim!

    Directed by Radu Jude • Drama • With Teodor Corban, Toma Cuzin, Luminita Gheorghiu • 2016 • 108 minutes

    Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run awa...

  • "I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians"

    Directed by Radu Jude • Drama • With Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija • 2019 • 140 minutes

    “I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken by Romania’s military dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu in the Council of Ministers in the summer of 1941, started the eth...