Canadian Premiere
If you were looking for a time capsule movie to show future generations where we’re at right now, this anguished Eastern European drama of conscience would be a compelling candidate. Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) used to teach law; now she’s a bailiff whose primary function is to oversee evictions at the behest of international developers. When one such assignment ends in tragedy, she’s traumatized and consumed with guilt. What more could she, or should she, have done? In a corrupt and immoral system, where does individual responsibility begin? It’s a question she returns to with family, friends, colleagues, and even a priest — each proffering condolences Orsolya cannot accept.
Awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, Radu Jude’s film is direct and probing. Like Bad Luck Banging and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Kontinental ’25 is alert to the grievous ethical, political, and philosophical dimensions of late capitalist life. It’s not for nothing that a dinosaur park looms large.
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, Berlinale 2025
Supported by
Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, Șerban Pavlu
Romania
2025
In Romanian, Hungarian and German with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Ramona Grama, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal-Zade, Andreas Roald, Berta Marchiori, Fernanda Frotté, Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef
Producer
Alex Teodorescu, Rodrigo Teixeira
Screenwriter
Radu Jude
Cinematography
Marius Panduru
Editor
Cătălin Cristuțiu
Production Design
Andreea Popa
Original Music
Matei Teodorescu
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is the Romanian director and screenwriter of numerous critically acclaimed films, beginning with his feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World in 2009. In 2021, his film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and its follow-up, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, received the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 2023. His latest feature, Kontinental ’25, a low-budget independent production, was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlinale.
Filmography: The Happiest Girl in the World (2009); Aferim! (2015); Scarred Hearts (2016); I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018); Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021); Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
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