Respect: Radu Jude
Radu Jude is one the most significant and prolific contemporary European auteurs. A filmmaker with an uncompromising, unique voice. He brings raw, unrestrained energy to his films, peppers them with pitch black humour. His oeuvre ranges from political to philosophical, probing deep into Romania’s dark past, and at the same time reflecting its deeply flawed present. Fusing the highbrow with the low, he always applies an evenly critical, unflinching eye to both. A truly revolutionary artist.
Radu Jude was assistant director on Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005), the film marking the very beginning of the New Romanian Cinema, a phenomenon which put Romanian cinema on a global map. He directed several short films before moving on to feature films with his feature length debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) followed by Everybody in Our Family (2012). He has made documentaries and fiction films including Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) and Uppercase Print (2020). Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) the Jury Prize at Locarno Film Festival.
Radu Jude is one the most significant and prolific contemporary European auteurs. A filmmaker with an uncompromising, unique voice. He brings raw, unrestrained energy to his films, peppers them with pitch black humour. His oeuvre ranges from political to philosophical, probing deep into Romania’s dark past, and at the same time reflecting its deeply flawed present. Fusing the highbrow with the low, he always applies an evenly critical, unflinching eye to both. A truly revolutionary artist.
Radu Jude was assistant director on Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005), the film marking the very beginning of the New Romanian Cinema, a phenomenon which put Romanian cinema on a global map. He directed several short films before moving on to feature films with his feature length debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) followed by Everybody in Our Family (2012). He has made documentaries and fiction films including Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) and Uppercase Print (2020). Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) the Jury Prize at Locarno Film Festival.