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Nae Caranfil (Nicolae Caranfil) (born 1960, Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.

Nae Caranfil studied at the Film and Theatre Institute (IATC) in Bucharest, which he graduated in 1984. He is the son of important Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil. In the beginning of his career he directed only short films: Venice in September (1983), Thirty Years of Insomnia (1984) and Backstage (1988). Caranfil made his feature film debut with E Pericoloso Sporgersi(1993) and continued with road movie comedy Asfalt tango(1996) (starring Charlotte Rampling) and with Dolce far niente (1998). His latest movie, Filantropica
(2002), was a critical success and attracted lots of popularity for Caranfil. Some consider Nae Caranfil to be the best Romanian director of the 1990s.

Nae Caranfil wrote the screenplay for all his movies and worked on the music for the first two of them (E Pericoloso Sporgersi(1993) and Asfalt-tango(1996)).

Nae Caranfil is currently also a professor at the Film and Theatre Institute (IATC) in Bucharest.

Awards

2003 Würzburg International Filmweekend - Audience Award for Filantropica
2002 Mons International Festival of Love Films - Young European Jury Award for Filantropica
2002 Paris Film Festival - Public Prize for Filantropica
2002 Wiesbaden goEast - Special Jury Award for Filantropica
1998 Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film - Golden Bayard Award for Best Screenplay for Dolce far niente
1993 Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival - Critics Award for E Pericoloso Sporgersi

Filmography as director

2006 The rest is silence
2002 Filantropica
1998 Dolce far niente
1996 Asfalt tango
1993 E Pericoloso Sporgersi

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