Cristina Flutur

• Name — Cristina Flutur • Awards — Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress • Known for — * Beyond the Hills • Grain • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 2004–present Cristina Flutur is a Romanian film and theatre actress.

After finishing high school, Mathematics and Physics department, she decided to study Romanian and English languages and literature, along with American literature, at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in her hometown. After graduating from her first faculty, she decided to get seriously into acting and became a student at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

After finishing her studies at the drama department of Babeș-Bolyai University, she became an actress for the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu, Romania. Here she performed in many productions, both classical and modern, under the guidance of famous Romanian and foreign directors, such as Alexandru Dabija, Radu Alexandru Nica, Gavriil Pinte, Andrei Șerban, Vlad Massaci, Tompa Gabor, Silviu Purcărete, Rodica Radu, Alexander Hausvater, Adriana Popovici, Florin Zamfirescu, Robert Raponja. During FITS, the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, she also played many roles in reading performances, recorded for the radio. Theatre productions in Sibiu: • "Platonov" by A. P. Chekhov, directed by Al. Dabija, role: Alexandra Ivanovna; • "Time for Love, Time for Death" by Fritz Kater, directed by Radu Alexandru Nica, roles: a pupil, the teacher, the storyteller; • "Turandot" adapted from Carlo Gozzi, directed by A. Zholdak, role: Turandot; • "The Guide of a Regained Childhood", by Andrei Codrescu, directed by Gavriil Pinte, role: Dulcea; • "Metamorphosis" adapted from Publius Ovidius Naso, directed by Silviu Purcarete, performance based on improvisations; • "Love Factory" by Darko Lukic, directed by Robert Raponja, role: Marie Duplessis; • "Life with an Idiot" adapted from Victor Erofeev, directed by A. Zholdak, role: The Wife; • "Othello?!" adapted from William Shakespeare, directed by A. Zholdak, role: Desdemona; • "Today Is No Smoking Day" by Iustin Panta, directed by Gavriil Pinte, role: Iustina; • "The Seagull" by A. P. Chekhov, directed by Andrei Serban, role: Nina Zarechnaya; • "Plasticine" by Vasili Sigariev, directed by Vlad Massaci, role: Spira; • "Rhinoceros" by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Tompa Gabor, role: The Waitress; • "Pantagruel's Sister-in-Law" adapted from Rabelais, directed by Silviu Purcarete, performance based on improvisations; • "The Human Voice" by Jean Cocteau, directed by Rodica Radu, one-woman show; • "Derby – an improvisation championship" directed by Alexander Hausvater, performance based on improvisations; • "Sweet Thursday" adapted from John Steinbeck, directed by Adriana Popovici, role: Ida; • "The Clouds", by Aristophanes, directed by Florin Zamfirescu. Theatre performances in Bucharest: • "Three Sisters", by A. P. Chekhov, directed by Gavriil Pinte, role: Masha, Radio drama for Radio România Cultural; • "Konkurs", adapted from Al. Galin, directed by Emanuel Parvu, role: Nina Ionescu, Metropolis Theatre.

• 2022 - The Drone (Netherlands), experimental short film, director Rutger Wolfson • 2022 - Gefilte Fish (Romania), feature film, director Andrei Cohn • 2022 - Wait Two Days (Belgium/Romania), short film, director Jaro Minne • 2022 - Une femme de notre temps (France), feature film, director Jean Paul Civeyrac • 2020 - Villetta con ospiti (Italy), feature film, director Ivano De Matteo • 2019 - Carturan (Romania), feature film, director Liviu Sandulescu • 2019 - Backdraft II (USA), feature film, director Gonzalo López-Gallego • 2018 - Cu unul în plus/Just One More (Romania), short film, director Valeriu Andriuta • 2018 - Să nu ucizi/Thou Shalt Not Kill (Romania), feature film, directors Gabi Sarga & Catalin Rotaru • 2018 - When I Die the World Ends (Sweden/Greece/Germany), short film, director Jennifer Rainsford • 2017 - Hawaii (Romania), feature film, director Jesus del Cerro • 2017 - Grain (film) (Turkey/Germany), feature film, director Semih Kaplanoğlu • 2016 - Fragments of Gabi (Belgium/Romania), short film, director Jaro Minne • 2015 - Raisa (Austria/Moldova/Romania), short film, director Pavel Cuzuioc • 2014 - Resistance (France), TV mini-series (TF1, RTS Un & More4), directors David Delrieux & Miguel Courtois • 2012 - Beyond the Hills (Romania/Belgium/France), feature film, director Cristian Mungiu