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About the director
Corneliu Porumboiu was born in 1974, in Vaslui, Romania. He studied Film Directing at the National University of Drama and Film, Bucharest. His first notable short film – A Trip to the City (2003) – received the Second Prize at Cinefondation, Cannes and the Best Short Movie Prize at Cinema Mediteranéen Film Festival, Montpellier. The medium length feature Liviu’s Dream (2003) won The Prize for the Best Romanian Movie at TIFF (2004) and was present in the official selection at Telluride Film Festival in the Great Expectations section.
In 2005 Corneliu Porumboiu enters a residency program at Cannes. In 2006 he makes his first feature – 12:08 East of Bucharest – which is selected in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs and wins the Camera d’Or for debut and the Label Europe, the film distributors’ award. The film took more than 20 awards in festivals all over the world. The film was distributed in more than 30 countries.
Police, adjective is the last film written, produced and directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The film has received the FIPRESCI Prize and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, where it has competed in the "Un Certain Regard" section.
Filmography
2009
Police, adjective. (script writer, director, producer)
113 min, 35 mm, Kodak color
2006
12:08 East of Bucharest (director, script writer, producer)
89 min, 35 mm, Kodak color
2003
Liviu's dream (script writer, director)
39 min, 35 mm, Kodak color
Trip to the city (script writer, director)
19 min, 35 mm, Kodak color
2002
On wine's wings (script writer, director)
9 min, 35 mm, Kodak color
Telephonic post temporary suspended (screenwriter, director)
14 min, 35mm Kodak b/w
2001
Love ... sorry (screenwriter, director)
5 min, 35mm Kodak b/w
2000
Graffiti (screenwriter, director)
7 min, 35mm Kodak color
Prizes and Participations
Police, adjective.
12:08 East of Bucharest
Liviu's dream
Trip to the city
On wine's wings