In the Morning
Early in the morning, a young taxi driver must drive a forty-year-old woman from Jilava to Bucharest.
- Romania
- 2007, 28 min
- Director: Radu Jude
- Director of photography: Andrei Butică
- Editor: Cătălin Cristuţiu
- Screenplay: Radu Jude, Andrei Butică
- Cast: Oana Ioachim, Andi Vasluianu, Gabriel Spahiu, Irina Săulescu, Sorin Godi
- Art Director: Ioan Ioachim Stroe
- Producer: Ada Solomon
- Production: Hi Film Productions
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. He studied filmmaking in Bucharest and started his career as an assistant director. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, which won more than fifty international awards. Radu’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was shown at more than fifty international film festivals. He followed with works such as Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), and Scarred Hearts (2016), winning multiple awards: the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2015 Berlinale, the Special Jury Prize in Locarno in 2016, and an EFA nomination for Best Scriptwriter. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno in 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and the Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă) premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2020, and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2021.