"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). In 2021, his 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 awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlinale, while his most recent film, Dracula, won the Second Prize of the Junior Jury Award at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival. Born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, in 1974, Adrian Cioflâncă is a historian whose work focuses primarily on the Holocaust, communism, and political violence. He is director of the “Wilhelm Filderman” Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and a member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives. Cioflâncă has worked as a consultant on several films and theatre productions and has co-authored several short documentaries for 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 their world premieres at the Berlinale."