writer / director
2008 / 2009
• Tales from The Golden Age / Amintiri din Epoca de Aur – collective episodic feature.
Writer / co-director / producer. In post-production.
2006 / 2007
• 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days / 4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile – feature.
Writer / Director / Producer.
Premiered at Cannes 2007.
Awards
Palme d’Or at Cannes Festival 2007.
Critics’ FIPRESCI award for best film in Cannes 2007
FIPRESCI’s Grand Prix - Best Film of the Year 2007, San Sebastian.
European Film Academy Awards for Best European Film in 2007 and Best European Director.
Considered Best Foreign film of the year by the New York Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics, Toronto Film Critics, NY Times and Times magazine and several other associations of film critics in North America.
The film was awarded several other distinctions.
2004–2005
• Lost and Found – collective episodic feature.
Co- Writer / Co – director.
Premiered at Berlinale 2005.
• Canton / Railroad crossings – short.
Writer.
Premiered at Venice Short Film Festival in 2005.
2002 – 2003
• Occident - feature.
Writer / Director.
Premiered at Quainzaine des Realisateurs, 2002.
Awards
Audience Award in Tessalonicky. Fipresci Award in Sofia.
Best Film in Leeds, Mons, Cluj. Several other awards.
2000 / 2001
• Nici o intimplare / Nothing by chance – Short.
• Corul Pompierilor / The Firemen’s Choir – Medium.
• Zapping 2000 / Short.
Writer / Director.
Born in Iasi, Romania in 1968.
Licensed in English and American Literature, University of Iasi, 1993.
Licensed in Film, University of Film and Theatre, Bucharest, 1998.
Before becoming a filmmaker, he worked as a journalist for written press, radio and television.
