He graduated from the UNATC in Bucharest in 2001. He is best known for the short film Trafic, which won him the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Both his debut feature film The Way I Spent the End of the World and Loverboy were premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Filmography

Loverboy (2011, D'A 2012), Cómo celebré el fin del mundo (2006), Trafic (curt, 2004), 17 minute întârziere (curt, 2002), București-Wien, 8:15 (curt, 2000)