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Nae Caranfil was born in Bucharest, in 1960.

He graduated from the „I.L. Caragiale” Institute of Theatre and Film, department for film direction, year 1984. His student film, September in Venice, wins awards in Romania and abroad (Bucharest, Tours, Torino). After a few years, in which he practises theatre direction through several enactments in Bucharest and Piatra Neamt, he leaves for Brussels in order to attend the European Screenwriter’s Programme within FEMI (Flemish European Media Institute) and elaborates, during the year 1988, the screenplay which would become, almost 20 years later (2007), the film The Rest is Silence.

Between 1989 and 1991, he writes screenplays for the French production companyCompagnie des Images.In 1992, he creates his first feature film, E pericoloso sporgersi, a French-Romanian co-production featured in Cannes in 1993, within the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section and later awarded at festivals in Montpellier, Bratislava or La Baule. He continues with Asphalt Tango (1995), another French-Romanian comedy with Charlotte Rampling topping the bill. His third feature film is the French-Italian-Belgian coproduction Dolce far niente (1998) starring Giancarlo Giannini, François Cluzet and Marguerita Buy (Award for Script in Namur in 1998 and participation in the official competition at Karlovy Vary in 1999). Philanthropy (2002) is another French-Romanian collaboration, a dark comedy receiving the Audience Award at the Paris International Film Festival and countless other prizes in Wiesbaden, Mons, Würzburg, Bratislava, Newport Beach and Athens, as well as a major box-office hit and critical success in Romania.

The script forThe Rest is Silence has won, over time, the Great Prize for Script at the Paris International Film Festival 1995 and the Second Prize in Hartly & Merrill International Scriptwriting Competition, Hollywood 1999. The film was featured in preview in Clujwithin TIFF (Transylvania International Film Festival) in 2007 and it closed the official competition in Locarno during the same year. It also won nine GOPO Awards, includingthe Award for Best Film of the Year.It was Romania’s proposal for the Oscars in 2009.

In 2014, he launches Closer to the Moon, with an Anglo-American cast led by Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong The film is produced in English and it opened the Making Waves festival from Lincoln Center, New York, several months before. It is rewarded with further nine GOPO Awards, including the one for Best Film of the year.

His latest production is 6,9 on the Richter Scale, where he signs, beside the script and direction, the score and lyrics of the „musical” numbers of the film. Featured in the opening to TIFF 2016.The premiere took place in early 2017. Winner of six GOPO Awards.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu