---
name: "Simona Pădurețu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simona-paduretu"
fi1m_id: "simona-paduretu"
imdb_id: "nm3433282"
tmdb_id: 1617288
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T02:13:27.908084+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Simona Pădurețu

## Identity

Simona Pădurețu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simona-paduretu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simona-paduretu
- **IMDb ID:** nm3433282
- **TMDB ID:** 1617288
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3433282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1617288

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3433282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1617288

## Biography

Simona Pădurețu is a Romanian production designer. She studied sculpture at secondary school before training in scenography at the National University of Arts in Bucharest.

She has worked extensively with directors including Cristian Mungiu and Corneliu Porumboiu. Her credits include production design on *Tales from the Golden Age* (2009), *Graduation* (2016), *The Whistlers* (2019), *The Father Who Moves Mountains* (2021), *R.M.N.* (2022) and *Fjord* (2026). She has also designed for television series such as *Tuff Money* (2020) and *Subteran* (2025).

Pădurețu received a Gopo Award for best production design for *The Whistlers* and has one win and four nominations in total.

*Sources: imdb.com, graphicfront.ro, agerpres.ro.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fjord* (2026), Fi1m 66, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/fjord.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fjord* (2026), Production Design — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/fjord.md)
- *Traffic* (2025), Production Design
- *Warboy* (2023), as Art Direction
- *R.M.N.* (2022), Production Design
- *The Father Who Moves Mountains* (2021), Production Design
- *The Campaign* (2021), Production Design
- *The Whistlers* (2019), Production Design
- *Moon Hotel Kabul* (2018), Production Design
- *Graduation* (2016), Production Design
- *Horizon* (2015), Production Design
- *The Walk* (2014), as Art Direction
- *Tales from the Golden Age* (2009), Production Design
- *The Yellow Smiley Face* (2008), Production Design

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/simona-paduretu