Radu Jude, born in Bucharest in 1977, is a Romanian director and screenwriter, considered one of the most important voices in contemporary European cinema and a leading figure of the Romanian New Wave. His work is distinguished by a critical and often provocative analysis of Romanian history and society, through a bold formal approach that blends fiction, documentary, and archival materials. He gained wide international recognition with *Aferim!* (2015), a black-and-white western about Romani slavery, for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. He later received the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for *"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians"* (2018), an investigation into Romania's role in the Holocaust. His success was crowned in 2021 when he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for the film *Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn*, a radical and controversial work on contemporary public morality.