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Cristi Puiu

Cristi Puiu

Actor, Writer, Director

Born April 3, 1967 in Bucharest, Romania

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Cristi Puiu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkristi ˈpuju]; born 3 April 1967; Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora.

Cristian Emilian Puiu was born to Iuliana and Emilian Puiu in Bucharest, Romania. Puiu's first interest in art was painting. In 1992, he was admitted as a student to the Painting Department of École Supérieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school, where he graduated in 1996. He started working in film after his return to Romania.

Cristi Puiu's debut as a director was in 2001 with the low-budget road movie Stuff and Dough (Marfa și banii), starring Alexandru Papadopol and Dragoș Bucur. The film received several awards in international film festivals and competed in the Quinzaines des Realisateurs section of the Cannes Film Festival. Some critics say that this is the film that started the Romanian New Wave in cinema. He continued with a short film, Cigarettes and Coffee (Un cartuş de Kent și un pachet de cafea) (2004), which was awarded the Golden Bear for best short film at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival. His second feature film, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu) (2005), was a dark comedy about an ailing old man who is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors refuse to treat him and send him away. The film was a critical success, being awarded the Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and numerous awards at other international film festivals. In 2006 this film gained 47 prizes, several nominations in the American Critics' Top 10 lists and in French magazines such as Telerama and Les Inrockuptibles.

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42 wins and 21 nominations

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Filmography

Actor

8

Type

Year

Viata intre doua filme Poster

Viata intre doua filme Documentary2014Self

Transilvania culturala TV Series2013Self

Ca-n Filme Poster

Ca-n Filme Mini-Series2012Self

Aurora Feature Film2010Viorel

Cinemaguerilla Poster

Cinemaguerilla Documentary2009Self

The New Wave of the Romanian Cinema Documentary2008Self

Jobbing TV Series2006Self

Días de cine Poster

Días de cine TV Series1991Self - Interviewee

Writer

10

Type

Year

MMXX Feature Film2023

Manor House Poster

Manor House Feature Film2020

Sieranevada Poster

Sieranevada Feature Film2016

Bridges of Sarajevo Poster

Bridges of Sarajevo Feature Film2014

Aurora Feature Film2010

Offset Feature Film2006

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Poster

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Feature Film2005

Cigarettes and Coffee Poster

Cigarettes and Coffee Short Film2004

Niki and Flo Poster

Niki and Flo Feature Film2003

Stuff and Dough Poster

Stuff and Dough Feature Film2001

Director

9

Type

Year

MMXX Feature Film2023

Manor House Poster

Manor House Feature Film2020

Sieranevada Poster

Sieranevada Feature Film2016

Bridges of Sarajevo Poster

Bridges of Sarajevo Feature Film2014

Three Exercises of Interpretation Poster

Three Exercises of Interpretation Feature Film2013

Aurora Feature Film2010

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Poster

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Feature Film2005

Cigarettes and Coffee Poster

Cigarettes and Coffee Short Film2004

Stuff and Dough Poster

Stuff and Dough Feature Film2001

Thanks

2

Type

Year

The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters Poster

The Chalice. Of Sons and Daughters Feature Film2022

Metrobranding Poster

Metrobranding Documentary2010

Producer

1

Francesca Poster

Francesca Feature Film2009

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