{"id":11470,"date":"2026-08-10T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:08:41","slug":"romanian-director-radu-judes-latest-film-selected-for-toronto-new-york-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11470","title":{"rendered":"Romanian director Radu Jude\u2019s latest film selected for Toronto, New York festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diary of a Chambermaid<\/em>, the latest feature film by Radu Jude, has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the New York Film Festival (NYFF).<\/p>\n

The film has been selected in TIFF’s\u00a0Wavelengths\u00a0<\/em>section, dedicated to auteur cinema, as well as the Main Slate<\/em>, the official selection of the New York Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The film had its world premiere in this year\u2019s Quinzaine des Cin\u00e9astes\/Directors\u2019 Fortnight<\/a>, an independent section held alongside the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy that this film, which has been made with a great deal of effort, is reaching the most important festivals in North America. It is a film shot mostly in France, the first one I have made outside Romania, but it is a Romanian film, primarily because of the issues it addresses. I\u2019m happy to see the work of the lead actress, Ana Dumitra\u0219cu, recognized, and I\u2019m also glad for the Romanian co-producer, Avanpost, which has made tremendous efforts to bring the film to fruition, especially since the project was rejected in the Romanian National Cinematography Centre\u2019s [e.n. funding] competition,\u201d director Radu Jude said.<\/p>\n

The Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d’une femme de chambre)<\/em> is a predominantly French production by SBS Productions, produced by Sa\u00efd Ben Sa\u00efd, with Avanpost as the Romanian minority co-producer. The Romanian co-producers are Vlad R\u0103dulescu and Carmen Rizac.<\/p>\n

Loosely inspired by Octave Mirbeau\u2019s novel of the same name, the film \u201coffers a contemporary reinterpretation of the story, bringing Romania and France, East and West, migration, domestic work, social inequality and power relations in today\u2019s Europe into dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film follows Gianina, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy family in Bordeaux. She devotes herself entirely to caring for her employers\u2019 son, while her own daughter grows up far away from her in Romania.<\/p>\n

The cast includes Ana Dumitra\u0219cu, Sofia Dr\u0103goman, Ilinca Manolache, Liliana Ghi\u021b\u0103, Marie Rivi\u00e8re, M\u00e9lanie Thierry and Vincent Macaigne. The film was shot by cinematographer Marius Panduru and edited by C\u0103t\u0103lin Cristu\u021biu.<\/p>\n

The Diary of a Chambermaid<\/em> will be released in Romanian cinemas on November 20, distributed by Independen\u021ba Film.<\/p>\n

Radu Jude was born in Bucharest in 1977. He graduated from the Media University\u2019s Film Directing Department in 2003 and worked as an assistant director on films including Amen<\/em> by Costa-Gavras and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu<\/em> by Cristi Puiu.<\/p>\n

He has directed several short films, including The Tube with a Hat<\/em> (2006), which received prizes at Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Trieste, Cottbus and numerous other festivals.<\/p>\n

His feature-film debut, The Happiest Girl in the World<\/em> (2009), was selected for the ACID program at Cannes and won awards in Berlin, Sofia and IndieLisboa. It was followed by Everybody in Our Family<\/em> (2012), winner of the Heart of Sarajevo award, and Aferim!<\/em> (2015), which earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2021, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn<\/em> won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Last year, he won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for\u00a0Kontinental ’25<\/em> at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n

His 2016\u00a0Inimi cicatrizate\/ Scarred Hearts<\/em> received two awards at the Locarno International Film Festival and brought him the best director award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. Jude’s 2018\u00a0\u00cemi este indiferent dac\u0103 \u00een istorie vom intra ca barbari\/ I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians<\/em> received the Crystal Globe Award at the 53rd edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Previous films by Jude, Dracula<\/em> and Kontinental \u201925<\/em>, have also been selected at the New York Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Also at TIFF, Cristian Mungiu\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winner Fjord<\/em> has been selected in the official competition.<\/p>\n

(Photos: Avanpost)<\/em><\/p>\n

simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Diary of a Chambermaid, the latest feature film by Radu Jude, has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the New York Film Festival (NYFF). The film has been selected in TIFF’s\u00a0Wavelengths\u00a0section, dedicated to auteur cinema, as well as the Main Slate, the official selection of the New York Film Festival. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}