DRACULA

Radu Jude

(Bucharest, Romania, 1977), graduated in film in 2003; he directed his first short in 2006 and debuted in feature films in 2009 with The Happiest Girl in the World, presented and awarded at the Berlinale Forum, as was his next movie, Everybody in Our Family (2012). He then participated in the Directors' Fortnight with the shorts Shadow of a Cloud (2013) and It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014). In 2015 he participated in competition at the Berlinale with Aferim!, which won the Silver Lion for best director. His movie Scarred Hearts (2016) participated in competition at the festival of Locarno, where, the following year, he presented his documentary about the extermination of the Jews in Romania during the 1930s and ‘40s, The Dead Nation, and in 2023 Don't Expect too Much from the End of the World, gaining the Jury Award. Torino Film Festival presented in 2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, halfway among fiction, documentary, cinema and performance, which was followed by Uppercase Print (2020) and above all Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Golden Bear in Berlin. In 2023 he won Special Jury Prize in Locarno with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. Two years later he presented at the same Festival his Dracula.

FILMOGRAFIA

In familie (serie tv, 2002), Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat, cm, 2006), Alexandra (cm, 2006), Dimineata (In the Morning, cm, 2007), Cea mai fericitã fatã din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009), Film pentru prieteni (A Film for Friends, 2011), Toata lumea din familia noastra (Everybody in Our Family, 2012), O umbra de nor (Shadow of a Cloud, cm, 2013), Trece si prin perete (It Can Pass Through the Wall, cm, 2014), Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã (coregia Andrei Cretulescu, Luiza Parvu, Iulia Rugina, 2014), Aferim! (2015), Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts, 2016), Tara moarta (The Dead Nation, doc., 2017), Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2018), O fabula (cm, 2020), Nu stiu (cm, 2020), Stimati oameni de cultura (cm, 2020), Sesso sfortunato o follie porno (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc, 2021), Caricaturana (cm, 2021), Plastic Semiotic (cm, 2021), Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est (cm, 2022), Potemkinistii (The Potemkinists, cm, 2022), Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii (Don't Expect too Much from the End of the World, 2023), Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală (Eight Postcards from Utopia, coregia Christian Ferencz-Flatz, cm, doc, 2024), Dracula (2025).