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Specter

DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
NU AŞTEPTA PREA MULT DE LA SFÂRŞITUL LUMII

• Director: Radu Jude
• ROMANIA, LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE, CROATIA / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 163’ / Romanian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Radu Jude
• Director of Photography: Marius Panduru
• Editing: Catalin Cristutiu
• Cast: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrşan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazar, László Miske, Katia Pascariu
• Producer: Ada Solomon, Adrian Sitaru, Radu Jude
• Production Co.: 4 Proof Film, microFilm
• World Sales: Heretic

2023 Locarno Special Jury Prize, 1st Prize of the Junior Jury
2023 Lisbon Jury Prize
2024 Dublin Critics Circle Awards Film Best Film

Romanian auteur Radu Jude is back after Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn with yet another dizzying, relentless, hilarious social critique. Cinema, capitalism, labour, and technology meet the political sociology of the digital world in this two-part, absurdist, feminist satire. We follow Angela, an overworked and sleepless production assistant, who must drive around the city of Bucharest in order to find the casting for a “safety at work” video commissioned by a multinational company. On the other hand, we also follow the taxi driver Angela, who, in a film from the past century, encounters her future husband on the same streets. Funny and furious, the film was declared Romania’s candidate for the Oscars.

This film is screened with the kind contribution of Dimitrie Cantemir Romanian Culture Center.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.