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KONTINENTAL ’25
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February 6, 2026
Friday, 19:00
Director: Radu Jude
Year: 2025
Runtime: 109 minutes
Winner of Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival 2025, KONTINENTAL ’25 is a low-budget, dark and razer-sharp satire by the anarchistic, critically-lauded Romanian director Radu Jude.
With his earlier films – Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Jude established a unique style in breaking rules of genre, rationality and even decency.
With his earlier films – Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Jude established a unique style in breaking rules of genre, rationality and even decency.
Blending drama and comedy, KONTINENTAL ’25 dissects topics such as the housing crisis, post-socialist economics, nationalism and the power of language to maintain social status. It is a razor-sharp and absurd story that demonstrates director Radu Jude’s complete control over his means of expression. Continental ’25 is partly an homage to Roberto Rossellini’s classic Europa ’51, but made in an indie style with the modest means of a low-budget production. In Rossellini’s film, the moral dilemma leads to action that creates meaning and change. However, Jude’s protagonist Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) finds no one who understands her and becomes increasingly desperate for external validation. Her predicament would be easy to condemn if Orsolya’s moral relativism were not such an uncomfortably accurate reflection of a modern affliction few of us are completely immune to.
Tickets via link or at the door. Doors open 30 min before showtime.
Oddly enough, Jude will premier TWO FILMS in February. On on February 27 we will also show the premier of DRACULA. “It’s fucking nuts … A film that will be studied for decades!” (rogerebert.com)