Born in Bistriţa (Romania) in 1979, he is a film- maker interested in contemporary stories, working in both fiction and documentary. He studied Film and Visual and Media Anthropology, and began working as a freelance photographer and cinema- tographer. After making the short films ‘The Deer Passed in Front of Me’ (2020) and ‘The Same Dream’ (2021), his debut film, ‘Where are you Bucharest?’ (2014), premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His second feature, ‘Between Revolu- tions’, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival - Forum section, where it received the Fipresci Award and went on to be shown and awarded at more than 100 festivals worldwide, where, among others, he won the First Prize in Seminci’s Time of History do- cumentary section.