Radu Jude

The director-ultimate troll of our time, brazenly continues to parody past, present, and future in a delightful three-hour crescendo. An inventive, extravagantly exaggerated collage of references and narratives that defies classification, just as Count Dracula’s image is reflected in no mirror. — What happens when a young and curious director puts his creativity to the test with an AI of unlimited possibilities? An unexpected fusion of old and new stories around the primordial myth of Dracula: vampire hunts, zombie hordes, a striking Dracula, a sci-fi tale of the return of Vlad the Impaler, a tragic romance, a tasteless legend, and many more kitsch stories besides. — Junior Jury Award | Locarno Film Festival | 2025

Absolutely current, absolutely modern and absolutely meta, this biting social satire by Romanian Radu Jude, which triumphed in Berlin and took home the Golden Bear, is the first great cinematic depiction of the Covid-19 era. — A couple films its own amateur porn tape, but when that leaks to the internet, its star tries to secure her position at the school where she works, while the fabric of society is being disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. — Golden Bear | Berlin Film Festival | 2020 Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival

Radu Jude strikes again, taking his title from words spoken at a Romanian government meeting in 1941, a few months before the army helped murder tens of thousands of Jews in Odessa. Now a theatre director wants to restage that massacre in a Bucharest car park, and the city would rather she didn’t. — In Bucharest, the theatre director Mariana is preparing a public re-enactment of a massacre committed by the Romanian army on the Eastern Front. She means to show what her country did quite literally, and once the people around her grasp just how literally, the protests begin. — Best Film | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | 2018 Europa Cinemas Award | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | 2018

True to his mission of portraying late capitalist Europe, Radu Jude proves once again that he is the ultimate contender for the title of the most unpredictable contemporary filmmaker and wins the 75th Berlinale's award for Best Screenplay. — Cluj, Transylvania. After being driven from his shelter in a house cellar, a homeless man commits suicide. Orsolya, the bailiff who carried out the eviction, is impelled to make various attempts to address her feelings of guilt. — Best Screenplay | Berlin Film Festival | 2025

Nobody films today’s Europe like Radu Jude, who is both provocateur and scholar. He borrowed his title from Stanisław Jerzy Lec and cut a Romanian classic into the film to deliver a merciless takedown of modern consumerism, a world where old cinema and TikTok go arm in arm. — Angela, a production assistant in present-day Bucharest, has been up since four in the morning. A corporation has ordered a film about safety at work, and she spends the whole day driving around the city to film auditions with workers who were injured on the job and are supposed to tell their own stories. The company, though, has its own ideas about how those stories should go. — Special Jury Prize | Locarno Film Festival | 2023