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Romania’s Oscar^® submission for Best International Feature

Screening to be followed by a conversation with actor Ilinca Manolache.

Winner of two awards at this year’s Locarno Film Festival and Romania’s Oscar® submission for Best International Feature, the latest from the prolific Radu Jude is an outlandish and satirically crass commentary on Romanian society. The film interweaves scenes from a hectic day in the life of Angela, an overworked and underpaid production assistant, with clips from a 1980s Romanian film that follows a female taxi driver (also named Angela). Jude observes each woman circling Bucharest in perpetual transit, feeling the burden of their country’s absurd culture of corruption. While he critiques Romania’s exploitation of labor rights and consumerism, Jude also takes jabs at the film industry – the comical red tape of video production and being on set. Featuring the charming and singular Ilinca Manolache (who brilliantly channels an alpha male influencer), the alluring Nina Hoss (TÁR) as an aloof, foreign businesswoman and an appearance from infamous German filmmaker Uwe Boll as himself. –Julia Kipnis