Screening times:
Sunday, May 3, 7:45 PM
Saturday, May 23, 6:00 PM

Radu Jude | Romania | 2025 | 109m
Romanian, Hungarian, and German with English subtitles

Eszter Tompa stars as Orsoly, a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she must evict a homeless man who lives in the basement of a building. An unexpected event creates a moral crisis she tries to solve as best she can.

Once again Radu Jude’s (Dracula, Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World) casts his sardonic eye on the modern world with dry, surprising wit. Kontinental ‘25 was made in 10 days and shot on an iPhone - giving it a naturalistic energy, and allowing the writer/director to say what he wanted to say on his own terms. “Many films about poverty or social violence are made with multimillion-dollar budgets,” says Jude. “There’s a mismatch sometimes, and I wanted to push against that.”

A playful, persuasive homage to Roberto Rossellini’s Europe ’51, Jude shows once again that he is one of the most innovative, exciting and daring directors working today.

“Shot on an iPhone with the same crew that Jude had already collected for his forthcoming epic about the Dracula myth, “Kontinental ’25” naturally feels like the scrappy and scabrous B-side to a larger project about Transylvanian self-identity." - David Ehrlich, IndieWire

““Kontinental ’25” is, in short, a movie about the way we live now, the way we cope now, and, perhaps most of all, the way we rationalize now.” - Justin Chang, The New Yorker

“He presents a world full of such unreliable narrators that it is nigh impossible for his heroines to chart a moral course through all the noise.” - Mark Asch, Film Comment

Winner: Berlin Film Festival Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay, 2025

Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)