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Opening Film: DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD

Radu Jude
Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia, 2023
163 min.

Radu Jude’s newest social fresco focuses on Angela, an overworked and underpaid production assistant, who is tasked with casting the main character of a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. However, the interviewee, a paraplegic man named Ovidiu, is not entirely aligned with the company’s narrative.

Radu Jude is a filmmaker of constant reinvention, and the trajectory of his career in recent years has been the most spectacular one within contemporary Romanian cinema: an oeuvre that is deeply political, self-reflexive, and thoroughly critical of the status quo, be it social, intellectual, or cinematic. Bolstered by the tour de force performance of actress Ilinca Manolache, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is among the most acerbic and darkest work of Jude’s career: a deeply anxiogenic collage of present-day malaise (exploitation, precarity, savage capitalism, and post-imperialism) and the ages of the image (from the incidental documentary moments of Communist-era cinema, via the New Romanian Cinema up to the Instagram stories and reels of the present). The end of the world is here, now — and, to paraphrase Mark Fischer, it’s not also the end of capitalism. (Flavia Dima)

Data proiecție și locație

Tuesday, 26th of September | 19:00 and 20:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Str. Eforie, nr. 2 (19:00)
Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bd. Dacia, nr. 77 (20:00)
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Premii și festivaluri

Radu Jude

Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. His feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), and Scarred Hearts (2016) followed and won multiple awards. The Dead Nation (2017) marked his debut in documentary film. His 2021 feature Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear in Berlinale 2021. Over the past years he has also made several short films, including Caricaturana (2021), Plastic Semiotic (2021) and The Potemkinists (2022). Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World (2023) has won the Special Jury Prize at the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • SCREENPLAY: Radu Jude
  • CAST: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazăr, László Miske, Katia Pascariu
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marius Panduru
  • EDITING: Cătălin Cristuțiu
  • SOUND DESIGN : Marius Leftărache
  • SOUND MIXING: Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc
  • COSTUME DESIGN: Radu Jude
  • HAIR/MAKE-UP: Bianca Boeroiu
  • VFX: Quentin Verbruggen
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Diana Caravia, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal-Zade, Andreas Roald
  • LINE PRODUCER: Valentino Rudolf
  • PRODUCTION: 4 Proof Film
  • PRODUCERS: Ada Solomon, Adrian Sitaru
  • CO-PRODUCTION: Paul Thiltges Distributions, Les Films d'Ici, Kinorama, microFILM
  • CO-PRODUCERS: Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges, Serge Lalou, Claire Dornoy, Ankica Jurić Tilić

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Opening Film: DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH OF THE END OF THE WORLD

Radu Jude | Duration 163 min.

Radu Jude’s newest social fresco focuses on Angela, an overworked and underpaid production assistant, who is tasked with casting the main character of a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. However, the interviewee, a paraplegic man named Ovidiu, is not entirely aligned with the company's narrative.

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Lisandro Alonso | Duration 146 min.

Sadie spends a long night waiting for her aunt, to no avail. Hurt, she decides to begin her journey with the help of her grandfather: she will fly through time and space to South America. She will stop watching old black and white westerns that do not represent her in any way, and everything will feel different when she hears the dreams of other people, those who live in the forest.

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