In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve.

1 win, 2 nominations.
2025 Winner Silver Berlin Bear
Best Screenplay

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Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 is unmistakably his own. That’s evident in the film’s self-derisive humor, caustic social critique, surreal interventions in everyday situations that are taken to their ridiculous limit, and an intrepid revisiting of history so specific to Romania that it ends up gaining a universal, almost fable-like force.

Jude’s cinema isn’t exactly absurdist, though it exposes the absurdities of a present reeling from the unresolved injustices of the past. In Kontinental ’25, set in the Cluj area of Transylvania, a Hungarian-Romanian bailiff, Orsolya (Eszter Tompa), is guilt-ridden after evicting an older man, penniless due to drinking and gambling, from his basement studio, after months of squatting, which led the man to commit suicide. Though Orsolya feels bad to have kicked the man out, she was just doing her job—and, besides, the man’s unsanitary living quarters needed to be demolished to make room for a luxury hotel (the Kontinental of the film’s title).

The situation that sets off the film’s plot into motion, where even the most precarious of living conditions of an elderly Romanian rendered destitute by modernity’s toxic seductions can’t be sustained, is fundamental: Out with the old, in with the new. Indeed, Kontinental ’25 is dotted with images of modern constructions that suggest an invasion of the Romanian landscape: from the inexplicable presence of mechanical dinosaurs in the woods and robotic creatures invading the personal space of passersby in the streets of Cluj to the gated urban development projects with signs that read “Private Property” lying next to centuries-old churches. – Diego Semerene
| Slant Magazine

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Runtime: 	1 h 48 min
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Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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Language(s):Romanian, Hungarian, German, Latin, English
Subtitles:English, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian

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