Cătălin Mitulescu (born January 13, 1972 in Bucharest) is a Romanian film director. He graduated from the UNATC in Bucharest in 2001. He is best known for the short film Trafic (Romanian for "traffic"), which won him the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and for the debut feature The Way I Spent the End of the World (Romanian: Cum mi-am petrecut sfârşitul lumii), which was screened