Biography

Member of the European Film Academy, Tudor is the founder and President of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), the most prestigious film-related event in Romania. His directorial debut feature Love Sick was selected in Panorama section of 2006 Berlinale and awarded in several int'l festivals). His short Superman, Spiderman or Batman (2011) won Best European Short at the 2012 edition of European Film Academy Awards. Tudor's 2nd feature, Of Snails and Men, was awarded in Warsaw IFF and Valladolid IFF. "Why Me?", an unsettling legal thriller based on a real case of corruption in present-day Romania, premiered in 2015 Berlinale Panorama. His most recent films are "Libertate" (2023), a story inspired by real events happened when communism fell in December 1989, which scooped 10 major awards at Gopos, the Romanian Oscars, and "Nasty", a documentary about the career of iconic tennis player Ilie Nastase, which premiered in 2024 Cannes film festival. Tudor produced or co-produced many feature films such as Servants by Ivan Ostrochovsky (Berlinale 2020), Katalin Varga by Peter Strickland (Silver Bear in 2009 Berlinale), Mission of the Human Resources Manager by Eran Riklis (Audience Award in Locarno 2010).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tudor Giurgiu

[on Why Me? (2015)] It is a personal and complicated story; it took me a long time to film it. It is the most important project I worked on. I would like for it to remain known as a radiography of the Romanian society of the 2000s. [2015]