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Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter known for his incisive and  unconventional explorations of history, memory, and social identity. His feature debut, The  Happiest Girl in the World (2009), premiered to wide acclaim and was selected for more than 50  international film festivals. He went on to direct a series of highly praised films, including  Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), I Do Not Care If We Go  Down in History as Barbarians (2018), and Uppercase Print (2020). Each of these works earned  numerous awards and established Jude as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary  European cinema. In 2021, his provocative satire Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden  Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. His  following film, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023), received the Special  Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. His feature, Kontinental ’25, a low-budget independent  production, was honored with the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlinale, while his  most recent Dracula won the Second Prize of the Junior Jury Award at the 2025 Locarno Film  Festival.

Adrian Cioflâncă was born in Piatra Neamt, Romania in 1974. His work as a historian focuses  chiefly on the Holocaust, communism and political violence. He is director of the ”Wilhelm  Filderman” Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and member of the Collegium of the  National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. Adrian Cioflâncă has been a consultant  on several films and theatre plays and co-authored several short documentaries for the Romanian  Public Television. Two of his films, co-directed with Radu Jude – The Exit of the Trains (2020) and  Memories from the Eastern Front (2022) – had its world premiere at Berlinale.