Winner of the prestigious Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin International Festival, and nominated for Best Film, Kontinental ’25 is acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s follow-up to his award-winning film Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, and the controversial Golden Berlin Bear winner Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. Once again he casts his sardonic eye on the modern world with dry, and often unexpected, wit – not to mention the occasional dinosaur statue.
 

Eszter Tompa (who appears in Jude’s forthcoming take on the Bram Stoker classic Dracula) stars as a bailiff caught in a moral quandary after a tragedy occurs connected to her work, in a film that is urgently up to the minute and strikingly provocative. The Daily Beast says: “at once incisive and ambiguous, it’s proof that Jude is operating on a completely different level than most of his contemporaries.”
 

Shooting back-to-back with his Dracula project, Jude’s film 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, but definitely unique and surprising, Jude shows once again that he is one of the most innovative, exciting and daring directors working today.

Radu Jude’s brilliantly irreverent social satire Kontinental ’25 is now released in UK cinemas.