Directed by Radu Jude • 2006 • Romania

Radu Jude’s debut short announced a major filmmaking talent to the world back in 2006, winning at Sundance and Cottbus. A father and son haul a battered old TV set through mud and rain to the nearest town, hoping to get it fixed in time for a Bruce Lee film screening that evening. Of a piece with the handheld social realism of the Romanian New Wave, this early film captures a side of Jude that is not often seen elsewhere: a tenderness and an open-minded approach to rural poverty and familial bonds.

THE TUBE WITH A HAT • LAMPA CU CĂCIULĂ
Directed by Radu Jude
Written by Florin Lăzărescu
Cinematography by Marius Panduru
Starring: Marian Bratu, Gabriel Spahiu

In Romanian with English subtitles

Winner of Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006