Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. His feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018), Uppercase Print (2020) followed and won 

multiple awards worldwide. In 2021, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear in Berlinale 2021. His latest feature, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, has recently won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival and is the Romanian entry for the Academy Awards' International Feature Film category. 

Christian Ferencz-Flatz is a philosopher, currently affiliated as a researcher at the Alexandru Dragomir Insititute for Philosophy in Bucharest. He teaches at the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. His research concerns phenomenology, critical theory, the philosophy of history, film- and media philosophy. With Julian Hanich, he edited the journal issue Studia Phaenomenologica XVI: Film and Phenomenology (2016). His latest monographs include: Critical Theory and Phenomenology. Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives (Springer, 2023) and Filmul ca situație socială / Film as a Social Situation (Tact, 2018). He published numerous essays and research articles in philosophical and film scholarly journals and translated into Romanian key theoretical works by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer. He is currently developing a research project devoted to post-socialist advertising.