Kontinental '25

Kontinental '25

"Continental". This is the name of a new luxury hotel, which is planned to be built on the site of an old building where no one lives. Except for one homeless man hiding in the basement. When the special services try to evict him from there, the man commits suicide in despair. For the bailiff who witnessed the suicide, this story became a personal moral challenge. Trying to cope with the guilt that persists, she seeks words of support from her family, friends, a priest and even casual conversationalists, but instead discovers the painful cracks of modern Romanian society. Read more New film by director and experimenter Radu Zhude - one of the brightest voices of modern Romanian cinema. . His "Continental 25" is a sharp social satire about humanity and its absence, about complicity and a system that is accustomed to absolving itself of responsibility. The film reveals the deeper social cracks in modern Europe: nationalism, which is exacerbating under the pressure of economic instability, gentrification, intolerance of migrants and various forms of social chauvinism. In this story, Jude also finds a place to talk about the war in Ukraine, weaving it into the broader context of modern European reality. And the tape itself was shot on an iPhone 15 in just 10 days and with a minimal budget – the ascetic form only strengthens its honesty.