Before deciding to embark on filmmaking, Constantin Popescu (b. 1973) worked as a translator, a production assistant and an assistant director. In 2014, he started to direct a series of well-received short films: The Apartment was the first, followed by A Lineman’s Cabin (2005), Water (2006) and The Yellow Smiley Face (2008). He also directed the Pig segment in the Tales from the Golden Age omnibus.
His debut feature, The Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2009), told the real story of young man resisting the communist regime in Romania, around 1950. Principles of Life, his second feature film, premiered in 2010 at the San Sebastian Film Festival, as well as his third, the visceral Pororoca, seven years later. For the latter, Bogdan Dumitrache won the Best Actor award at San Sebastian for taking on the role of a father overcome by grief when his child dissapears.
