Cristina Flutur

Cristina Flutur is a Romanian film and theatre actress.

In 2011 Cristina Flutur was called for an audition for a part in the new feature by the Romanian Golden Palm winner, Cristian Mungiu.

After a few screen tests, she was offered one of the main roles, that of a troubled girl brought up in an orphanage, Alina Ringhis.

In 2012 she made her debut in cinema, portraying the complex Alina Ringhis, main character in Cristian Mungiu's praised drama, Beyond the Hills.

For her outstanding performance in this film she received the Best Actress Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Before 2012, she performed for several years in theatre productions, both in Romania, on the stage of the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu, and abroad, when on tour with the ensemble.

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:

Theatre performances in Bucharest:

Acclaimed both by the critics and by the audience for her impeccable, most authentic, powerful and touching performance, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

One year later, in 2013, Cristina Flutur started her first project in a foreign language, performing in French the role of Cristina Boico in the TV mini-series "Resistance".

Cristina Boico was a Romanian Jewish woman who fought for the French Resistance during the Second World War.

Produced by Alain Goldman, the producer of "La mome", the mini-series casts also Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry and Isabelle Nanty.

It was broadcast in 2014 on TF1 (France) and RTS Un (Switzerland) and in 2015 on More4 (UK), being nominated in 2015 for Best TV movie at the Globes de Cristal Award.

In 2014 she started shooting for her first feature film in English, "Grain".

The film is directed by the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu and it had its premiere in 2017 at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Later that year it won the Grand Prix at Tokyo International Film Festival.