Crina Muresan | Gelu Colceag | Nicu Mihoc
Gabriel Hafner
Bord Cadre films (CH)
Société parisienne de production (F)
Essential Film (D)
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Cannes festival 2010
Official selection, Un certain regard
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Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2010
East of the West Award
- Sarajevo Film Festival 2010
- New York Film Festival 2010
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Festival International
de Cine de Gijón 2010"Gil Parrondo" Prize
for the best Artistic Direction - Rotterdam Film Festival 2011
- Hong Kong Film Festival 2011
- San Francisco Film Festival 2011
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what seems to be a family. The same city, the same man: driving through traffic with two hand-made firing pins for a hunting rifle. The man is 42 years old, his name – Viorel. Troubled by obscure thoughts, he drives across the city to a destination known only to him.
Cristi Puiu was born in Bucharest, Romania. In 1992, he was admitted to the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Visuels in Geneva where he has studied painting, then cinema. His first short film Avant le petit déjeuner was selected in 1995 at the Locarno Film Festival and he obtained his end of studies diploma with the documentary 25.12. Bucharest, North Railway Station.
Five years later he directed his first feature film Stuff & Dough that was selected at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes and received several prices including the Fipresci prize.
In 2004, after receiving the Golden Bear in Berlin for his short film Cigarettes and Coffee, he initiates the idea of directing six films about Bucharest. In 2005, La mort de Monsieur Lazarescu, first entry in the series obtains the prize Un certain Regard at the Cannes Festival.
Aurora is the second entry in this large project.
- 2010 Aurora
- 2005 La Mort de Monsieur Lazarescu
- 2004 Cigarettes and Coffee
- 2001 Stuff & Dough