Florin Șerban (born 21 January 1975 in Reșița) is a Romanian film director whose film If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle won the Jury Grand Prix and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2010 Berlin Film festival. The film was also selected as the Romanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist. His second movie, Box (2015) premiered at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Award. It was also presented at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and at other 10 national and international festivals. His third film - Love 1. Dog (2018) opens The Trilogy of Love, three films about three ways of loving. It won the Cineuropa Prize and Art Cinema Prize at 2018 Sarajevo International Film Festival. His fourth movie is Love 2. America (2020), the second part of The Trilogy of Love.
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Florin Serban is a Romanian filmmaker and key figure of the Romanian New Wave recognized for his grounded character studies and social dramas.
He is best known for directing the acclaimed feature films If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and Box.
His debut feature won the Jury Grand Prix and Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale, and his later work received honors at Sarajevo and Karlovy Vary.
