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Florin Șerban (; born 21 January 1975 in
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) is a
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n film director whose film '' If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle'' won the Jury Grand Prix and the
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at the 2010 Berlin Film festival. The film was also selected as the Romanian entry for the
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at the
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but it did not make the final shortlist. His second movie,
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(2015) premiered at th
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
and won th
FIPRESCI Award
It was also presented at th
Toronto International Film Festival
in 2015 and at other 10 national and international festivals. His third film - ''Love 1. Dog'' (2018) opens ''The Trilogy of Love,'' three films about three ways of loving. It won the Cineuropa Prize and Art Cinema Prize at 2018 Sarajevo International Film Festival. His fourth movie is ''Love 2. America'' (2020), the second part of ''The Trilogy of Love''.


Filmography

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- coproducer 2001 (short film) * Jumătate de oraş face dragoste cu cealaltă jumătate -
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- 2002 *
Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier ''If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle'' ( ro, Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier) is a 2010 Romanian drama film directed by Florin Șerban. Plot Romanian youth Silviu (George Piștereanu) serves a four-year prison sentence. A few days before his rel ...
- 2010 *
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- (2015) * The man who didn't say a thing - 2016 * Love 1. Dog - 2018 *Love 2. America - 2020


Awards and nominations

* Berlin International Film Festival - 2010 - Silver Bear * Berlin International Film Festival - 2010 - Alfred Bauer Award * Festival International du Film Européen Cinedays - 2010 - Best producer * Cleveland International Festival - Central and Eastern European Competition - 2010 - Best Eastern European Movie
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
- Eastern Bloc Competition - 2010 - Best Eastern European Movie
Annonay International Film Festival
- 2010 - Best debut
Zlin International Film Festival
- 2010 - Best debut
Beaune International Thriller Festival
- 2010 - New Blood Award
Transilvania International Film Festival
- 2010 - Best Romanian Movie *
Gopo Awards The Gopo Awards ( ro, Premiile Gopo) are the national Romanian film awards, similar to the Academy Awards (US), the Goya Awards (Spain), or the César Award (France). They are presented by the Association for Romanian Film Promotion and were inau ...
- 2011 - Best producer * Gopo Awards - 2011 - Best debut
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
- 2015 - Fipresci Award
Sarajevo International Film Festival
- 2018 - Cineuropa Award * Sarajevo International Film Festival - 2018 - Art Cinema Award


See also

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Cinema of Romania The cinema of Romania is the art of motion-picture making within the nation of Romania or by Romanian filmmakers abroad. It has been home to many internationally acclaimed films and directors. As with much of the world's early cinema, the rava ...
*
Romanian New Wave The Romanian New Wave ( ro, Noul val românesc) is a Film genre, genre of Realism (arts)#Cinema, realist and often Minimalism#Minimalism in film, minimalist films made in Romania since the mid-aughts, starting with two award-winning shorts by two R ...


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