2025Nominee
Best Performance
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Radu Jude
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Bucarest, Romania
March 28, 1977
Biography
Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter born in Bucharest in 1977, known for his complex, often political, and anarchic films that explore historical memory, labor, and contemporary society. After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director and gained recognition for award-winning short films before directing his feature debut, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009). His work, which blends fact and fiction, uses found footage and contemporary culture, like TikTok, to offer scathing social commentary, earning him major awards from festivals such as Berlin and Sundance.
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2025Nominee
Best Director
Kontinental '25
2026Nominee
Best Performance
The Unknown
Career Highlights
2026Highlight
Best Director
The Diary of a Chambermaid
2002Highlight
Best Director
Amen.
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Kontinental '25
The Unknown