Nae Caranfil made his feature film debut in 1993, with the film E Pericoloso Sporgersi, and continued with the road movie comedy Asfalt tango starring Charlotte Rampling in 1996, and with Dolce far niente in 1998.

His biggest hit however was Filantropica in 2002. In 2007, he directed The Rest is Silence/Restul e tăcere.

Caranfil, born in 1960, graduated the Film and Theater Institute in Bucharest in 1984. He is the son of famous film critic Tudor Caranfil.