Radu Jude

Director, Writer, Producer

Birthdate: Mar 28, 1977

Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania

Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. In 2003, he graduated from the Media University of Bucharest (Film Directing Department). Jude worked as an assistant director on Amen. (2002), directed by Costa-Gavras, and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), directed by Cristi Puiu. He directed several award-winning short films, among them Lampa cu caciula (2006) - the most successful Romanian short film ever, winner of Grand prizes at Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Grimstad, Hamburg, Bilbao, Huesca, Trieste, Montpellier, Cottbus, Aspen, IndieLisboa, Brussels, Mediawave, Kraków, Almería, Valencia, Uppsala and many more. Other shorts were selected by top festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco, Cottbus and Oberhausen, where Radu Jude won the Grand Prix. Jude directed over 100 advertising commercials. The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), his feature film debut, won the CICAE Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the FIRESCI Prize at the Sofia International Film Festival, the Prize for Best Screenplay at the Bucharest International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at IndieLisboa. The film was selected in the ACID Programme at 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Everybody in Our Family (2012) received the 'Heart of Sarajevo' Award and the Bayard d'Or in Namur, among other awards. Radu Jude's acclaimed historical drama Aferim! (2015) premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where he won the Silver Bear award as 'Best Director'.

Radu Jude Movies

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2026 |
Kontinental ’25
Kontinental ’25
2026
1h 49m
Comedy, Drama
6.7
In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve.
2025 |
Dracula
Dracula
2025
2h 50m
Comedy, Horror, Musical
6
A filmmaker in creative paralysis turns to an AI chatbot to help him make a movie about Dracula. What follows is a sprawling collection of vignettes set in modern-day Transylvania: a vampire hunt, Dracula crashing a labor strike with an army of zombies, a sci-fi story about Vlad the Impaler's return, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, a love story, and AI-generated kitsch interpolated throughout. A satirical anthology film about myth, cinema, power, and what happens when you let an algorithm tell a legend.
2024 |
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2024
2h 43m
Comedy, Drama
7.4
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
2021 |
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2021
Other
1h 46m
Comedy, Drama
6.5
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
2021 |
Uppercase Print
Uppercase Print
2021
2h 8m
Documentary, Drama, History
6.6
The story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.
2019 |
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2019
2h 20m
Comedy, Drama
7.2
An artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.
2016 |
Aferim!
Aferim!
2016
Other
1h 48m
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Western
7.6
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.