Kontinental '25

Judicial bailiff Orsolya must carry out the court's orders in accordance with her profession and removes a gambling-addicted alcoholic who has illegally squatted a basement. This has far-reaching consequences for the addict and her own conscience; he claims he will pack his things, goes into the basement, and commits suicide. The shock is immense for forty-something Orsolya. 

Was the eviction morally justifiable? Could she have acted differently? And what is her role as an executor of court orders that serve real estate developers in Cluj, a provincial town in Transylvania that wants to ride the wave of market-driven neoliberalism? These are a few of the questions that the director sends the main character on a quest to answer. Desperately, Orsolya tries to find answers among colleagues and friends, hoping to hear something that might alleviate her guilt.

Kontinental '25 – a nod to Roberto Rossellini's Europe '51, in which Ingrid Bergman immerses herself in charity as an unhappy diplomat's wife – is once again a typical Radu Jude film: lightly absurd situations as razor-sharp satire on contemporary Romania.

About Previously Unreleased
All summer, in collaboration with the Eye Filmmuseum, we will screen a new film each week that has been shown at prominent festivals both at home and abroad but has not yet reached Dutch cinemas. Eye believes this is unjustified and once again brings a special selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands this year.