KONTINENTAL '25

Cluj, Transylvania. After being driven from his shelter in a house cellar, a homeless man commits suicide. Orsolya, the bailiff who carried out the eviction, is impelled to make various attempts to address her feelings of guilt. Using a mixture of drama and comedy, topics as diverse as the housing crisis, post-socialist economics, nationalism and the power of language to maintain social status are dissected with a sharp, absurdist scalpel, in a movie-literate narrative that plays partly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51. Romanian auteur Radu Jude won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at Berlinale for this uncomfortably accurate reflection of a modern-day malaise from which few of us are wholly immune.