Radu Jude
{{short description|Romanian film director and screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Radu Jude
| image = Radu Jude with Silver Bear-1.jpg
| caption = Jude in 2025
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|3|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bucharest, Romania
| alma_mater = Media University of Bucharest
| occupation = Director
Screenwriter
| years_active = 2002–present
}}
Radu Jude ({{IPA|ro|ˈradu ˈʒude|lang}}; born 28 March 1977) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Most known for his Golden Bear winner film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021).
Biography
In 2003, Jude graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Media University of Bucharest. He worked as an assistant director for feature films including Amen., directed by Costa-Gavras and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, directed by Cristi Puiu. He directed several short films, among them Corp la corp (2003), Marea Neagră (2004), Lampa cu căciulă (2006) – the most awarded Romanian short film of all time, 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 selected, among others, at Toronto, Telluride, New Directors/New Films Festival, Tampere, Rotterdam. His short films Dimineața (2007) and Alexandra (2007) were selected in over 30 festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco, Cottbus, and Oberhausen (where he won the Grand Prix). Jude also directed over 100 commercials.{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemagia.ro/actori/radu-jude-26261/ |title=Radu Jude |work=Cinemagia |language=ro}}
The Happiest Girl in the World is his feature debut.{{cite web |url=http://adevarul.ro/cultura/arte/radu-jude-regizor-ma-influenteaza-viata-celor-jur-1_50ae78967c42d5a6639d044d/index.html |title=Radu Jude, regizor: "Mă influențează viața mea și a celor din jur" |work=Adevărul |date=14 April 2012 |language=ro}} Before the theatrical release in Romania, Cea mai fericită fată din lume won the CICAE Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the FIPRESCI Award (International Federation of Film Critics) at the Sofia International Film Festival, the Prize for Best Screenplay at the Bucharest International Film Festival and FIPRESCI Prize at IndieLisboa. The film was selected in ACID Programme at 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2011, he directed and produced the independent Film pentru prieteni. His feature film Everybody in Our Family (2012) premiered at the Berlinale Forum and received the Heart of Sarajevo Award and the Bayard d'Or in Namur, among other awards.{{cite web |url=https://www.festivalscope.com/director/jude-radu |title=Radu Jude |work=Festival Scope |access-date=2015-02-15 |archive-date=2015-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215130712/https://www.festivalscope.com/director/jude-radu |url-status=dead }}
Jude's Aferim!{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/aferim-berlin-review-772508/ |title=Aferim! by Radu Jude Review |last=Dalton |first=Stephen |work=Hollywood Reporter |date=11 February 2015 |access-date=4 September 2020}} won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2015/02/berlin-film-festival-winners-2015-awards-ceremony-winner-list-1201373679/ |title=Aferim! wins the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=14 February 2015 |access-date=4 September 2020}} The movie was also nominated at Tribeca Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, AFI Fest, London Film Festival, and Berlin International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Romanian official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards reaching the short list but was not nominated.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-romania-aferim-review-20160122-story.html/ |title=Aferim!, Romania's entry for the Foreign Language Academy Awards won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director |last=Linden |first=Sheri |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 January 2016 |access-date=4 September 2020}}
Jude returned to the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020 with his new film Uppercase Print, the story of Mugur Călinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote protest graffiti messages against the communist regime of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and was subsequently apprehended and interrogated by the secret police.{{cite web |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/best-friend-forever-boards-sales-on-radu-judes-berlinale-forum-title-uppercase-print-exclusive/5146355.article |title=Uppercase Print |last=Goodfellow |first=Melanie |work=Screen Daily |date=21 January 2020 |access-date=4 September 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Cardamenis |first1=Forrest |title=The Horror and Humor of Romania's Dictatorship |url=https://hyperallergic.com/692225/uppercase-print-radu-jude-romania-dictatorship/ |access-date=16 November 2021 |work=Hyperallergic |date=15 November 2021}} The film screened in the Forum section of the Berlinale as a world premiere. The film festival also featured his documentary film Ieșirea trenurilor din gară, co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă.{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/berlinale-2020-forum-lineup-raul-ruiz-1202204686/ |title=Iesirea trenurilor din gara, by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflanca |last=Obenson |first=Tambay |work=IndieWire |date=20 January 2020 |access-date=4 September 2020}}
Jude won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.{{cite web |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/international-jury.html |title=The Prizes of the International Jury|access-date=7 March 2021}}
An English-language monograph on Jude's work was published in 2023: Beyond the New Romanian Cinema: Romanian Culture, History, and the Films of Radu Jude, by Andrei Gorzo and Veronica Lazăr.
In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Jude signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.{{cite news|date=28 December 2023|title=Gaza : des cinéastes du monde entier demandent un cessez-le-feu immédiat|url=https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/gaza-des-cineastes-du-monde-entier-demandent-un-cessez-le-feu-immediat-20231228_WMAUSVJVLFEBNK4ME4XU3ZRU3M/|newspaper=Libération|language=fr|access-date=24 January 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://thefilmstage.com/claire-denis-ryusuke-hamaguchi-kiyoshi-kurosawa-christian-petzold-apichatpong-weerasethakul-more-sign-demand-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/|title=Claire Denis, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Christian Petzold, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More Sign Demand for Ceasefire in Gaza|last=Newman|first=Nick|date=29 December 2023|website=The Film Stage|access-date=24 January 2024}}{{cite news|date=31 December 2023|title=Directors of cinema sign petition for immediate ceasefire|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-780176|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=24 January 2024}}
Filmography
= Director =
- În familie (TV series, 2002)
- Lampa cu căciulă (short, 2006)
- Alexandra (short, 2006)
- Dimineața (short, 2007)
- The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
- Film pentru prieteni (2011)
- Everybody in Our Family (2012)
- O umbră de nor (short, 2013)
- Trece și prin perete (short, 2014)
- Aferim! (2015)
- Scarred Hearts (2016)
- Țara moartă (The Dead Nation) (documentary, 2017)
- I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
- Ieșirea trenurilor din gară (documentary, 2020)
- Uppercase Print (2020)
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
- Plastic Semiotic (short, 2021)
- The Potemkinists (short, 2022)
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
- Greetings from Crîngasi (short, 2023){{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqm6p8j7cho | title=Shigeru Umebayashi (Japan) x Radu Jude (Romania) - Greetings from Crîngasi | website=YouTube | date=15 September 2023 }}
- Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024)
- Kontinental '25 (2025){{Cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/472576 |title= The Berlinale unveils the titles playing in its Competition and its Perspectives and Berlinale Special strands|author= Davide Abbatescianni|date=21 January 2025|access-date=26 January 2025 |website= Cineuropa |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/film/472701/ |title= Kontinental '25|author= Radu Jude|date=24 January 2025|access-date=26 January 2025 |website= Cineuropa |language=en}}
= Writer =
- Alexandra (short, 2006)
- Dimineața (short, 2007)
- Cea mai fericită fată din lume (2009)
- Stanka se pribira vkashti (2010)
- My Tired Father (co-writer, 2011)
- Film pentru prieteni (writer, 2011)
- Everybody in Our Family (screenplay, 2012)
- Trece și prin perete (writer, 2014)
- Aferim! (screenplay, 2015)
- Scarred Hearts (screenplay, based on the Max Blecher novel, 2016)
- Plastic Semiotic (short, 2021)
- The Potemkinists (2022)
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
= Assistant director =
- Amen. (2002)
- Furia (2002)
- Moartea domnului Lăzărescu (2005)
= Producer =
- Alexandra (2006)
- Film pentru prieteni (2011)
- Trece și prin perete (2014)
Accolades
References
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External links
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Category:Film people from Bucharest
Category:Romanian film directors
Category:Silver Bear for Best Director recipients