Born in 1975 in Vaslui, Romania, is a famous film director and screenwriter. He graduated in 2004 the Film Directing department of the National University of Theater and Film from Bucharest. His debut feature “12.08 East of Bucharest” (2006) won the Camera d’Or prize at Cannes Film Festival. Porumboiu’s next films are “Police, adjective” (2009), “When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism”(2013) and “The Second Game” (2014). His last feature film, “The Treasure”, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Talent prize.