LIBERPRESS CINEMA AWARD 2019

Radu Mihaileanu (Bucharest, April 23, 1958) is a French film director and screenplay writer with Romanian origins. He lived in Israel and later in France, where he studied at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC). He started working in the film industry as an assistant director with Marco Ferreri and with Fernando Trueba. In 1993 he directed Trair, his first feature-length film, which won awards in Montreal, Istanbul, etc. It was followed by Train de vie. The film became a big international success, in large part because of the two awards it won at the Venice Film Festival 1998, and also at the David 1999, for best foreign film, and the awards it received from the public both at the Sundance Festival and Miami in 1999. After meeting with Ethiopian immigrants in Israel, he got involved in a vast endeavor that gave way in 2005 to Va, vis et deviens, a film that earned him a César and other awards at the Berlinale 2005. In 2009 he directed Le concert, which brought close to 1.9 million viewers to cinemas and in 2010, earned him the César Awards for best film, best original script and best director. In 2011, in a radical change of subject and setting, Radu Mihaileanu directed La source des femmes, with Leïla Bekhti and Hafsia Herzi, a film in which the women of a Maghreb town fight with their husbands for equality. The film was chosen at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016 he filmed The History of Love. He has also won the Henri-Langlois and the Henri Jeanson Awards for his overall career achievements.