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.

Filmography

• 2026Momo 3000 — Thanks
• 2026Shot Reverse Shot — Director, Writer
• 2026The Diary of a Chambermaid — Director, Screenplay
• 2026The Unknown — Malia's Father
• 2026Trailer for Dante's Paradise — Director
• 2025Dracula — AI JUDEX 0.0 (voice) (uncredited), Director, Co-Producer, Screenplay
• 2025Kontinental '25 — Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
• 2025Little Poems in Prose — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2025Sleep #2 — Producer, Writer, Director
• 2025Yes — Thanks
• 2024Eight Postcards from Utopia — Director, Writer
• 2023COOL (News from Belarus) — Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork"), Director
• 2023Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World — Producer, Costume Design, Director, Screenplay
• 2023Greetings from Crîngași — Self (voice), Director
• 2022Cinema Almanac: Six Short Films by Radu Jude — Director
• 2022Lightning — Director
• 2022Memories from the Eastern Front — Director, Writer
• 2022The Potemkinists — Director, Writer
• 2021Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn — Director, Screenplay
• 2021Caricaturana — (voice), Director
• 2021I Don't Know — Self (voice), Director, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2021Semiotic Plastic — Director, Writer
• 2020A Fable — Director
• 2020Dear Intellectuals — Narrator (voice), Director
• 2020The Exit of the Trains — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2020Uppercase Print — Director, Screenplay
• 2019Punish and Discipline — Director
• 2018I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians — Director, Writer
• 2018The Marshal's Two Executions — Director, Screenplay
• 2017The Dead Nation — Himself - Narrator, Director, Writer
• 2016Scarred Hearts — Director, Screenplay
• 2015Aferim! — Screenplay, Director
• 2014It Can Pass Through the Wall — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2014Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã — Director
• 2013Shadow of a Cloud — Director
• 2012Everybody in Our Family — Director, Screenplay
• 2011A Film for Friends — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2011My Tired Father — Writer
• 2010Stanka Goes Home — Writer
• 2009The Happiest Girl in the World — Director, Writer
• 2007In The Morning — Director, Writer
• 2006Alexandra — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2006The Tube with a Hat — Director
• 2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu — Assistant Director
• 2002Amen. — Assistant Director
• 2002The Rage — Assistant Director
• Call a Large Hound Near — Director, Screenplay
• Frankenstein in Romania — Writer, Director
• Heia, Heia, Safari! — Director, Screenplay
• Love Diptych — Director, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2026Instead of Trees — Self
• 2024Can Creativity Save the World? — Self
• 2009Cinemaguerilla — Self