When evicted from the basement of a house that is about to be demolished, a homeless man commits suicide. Orsolya, the bailiff in charge of the case, gradually sinks into guilt as she discusses the incident with close friends and old acquaintances.

Radu Jude has taught festival audiences to always expect surprises from him: sometimes realistic tragicomedy, sometimes complex philosophical dramas where the lion's share of the running time is taken up by the reenactment of a tragedy in the form of a city festival, sometimes a visual study of Romania's transition from socialism to capitalism consisting entirely of advertisements. This time, it's a black comedy about a moral dilemma, shot on an iPhone in 10 days while the director was filming another movie.

The minimal use of artistic means focuses our attention on the dialogues, which reveal a complex and absurd picture of modern Europe: nationalism, the housing crisis, social stratification, political action as a series of automatic transactions. The key issue for the present moment is the question of responsibility and its transformations in an increasingly uncontrollable modern world.

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Media partner of the film program: ‘98mag