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In the beginning of his career he directed only [[short films]]: ''Venice in September'' (1983), ''Thirty Years of Insomnia'' (1984) and ''Backstage'' (1988). Caranfil made his [[feature film]] debut with ''E Pericoloso Sporgersi'' (1993) and continued with [[road movie]] [[comedy film|comedy]] ''Asfalt tango'' starring [[Charlotte Rampling]] (1996) and with ''Dolce far niente'' (1998). His movie ''[[Filantropica]]'' (2002) was a critical success and attracted lots of popularity for Caranfil. Some consider Nae Caranfil to be the best Romanian director of the 1990s. Nae Caranfil wrote the [[screenplay]] for all his movies and worked on the [[film music|music]] for the first two of them (''E Pericoloso Sporgersi'' and ''Asfalt-tango'').
In 2011, Caranfil began production on the English-language feature film ''Closer to the Moon''. An early version of the script entitled ''Alice în Ţara Tovarăşilor'' (''Alice in the Land of Comrades'') won a grant of €576,600 from the National Centre of Cinema in 2007. The story is based on the 1959 bank robbery in Communist Romania for which a group known as the [[Ioanid Gang]] were convicted and sentenced to death. As they awaited execution, the prisoners were forced to film a reenactment of their crime. ''Closer to the Moon'' stars [[Mark Strong]], [[Vera Farmiga]], [[Harry Lloyd]], [[Joe Armstrong (actor)|Joe Armstrong]], [[Christian McKay]], [[Tim Plester]], [[Anton Lesser]] and [[Allan Corduner]]. Filming took place in Bucharest in the autumn of 2011.<ref>{{cite news|author=Blaga, Iulia|url=http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/romania/production-closer-to-the-moon-starts-shooting-in-bucharest|title=Closer to the Moon Starts Shooting in Bucharest|publisher=Film New Europe|date=6 September 2011|accessdate=2011-10-16|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330195633/http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/romania/production-closer-to-the-moon-starts-shooting-in-Bucharest|archivedate=2012-03-30|
==Awards==
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