Screenings
Online edition of the 66th KFF
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Romania2026documentary22'Short film competition
American journalist Edward Serotta arrived at Romania in the 1980s to photograph daily life in the last decade of Ceaușescu’s regime. He was unaware, however, that his every step was observed by officers of the Securitate. Forty years later, Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă compare the two archives presenting contrasting vantage points. The clash of two opposite perspectives – one of a reporter and the other of a state security agency – reveals the paradoxes of the system that obsessively snooped on citizens, leaving behind an unexpected record of its own power mechanisms.
- directed by
- Radu Jude
Acclaimed film director and screenwriter from Romania. his works have already been presented a number of times at the Berlinale, most recently in 2025 with the low-budget independent production 'Kontinental ’25' which won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. Also in 2025, his film 'Dracula' premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. 'Bad Luck Banging' or 'Loony Porn' was likewise selected for the competition and won the Golden Bear for Best Film. In 2023, he was a member of the festival’s International Jury.
Adrian Cioflâncă
Born in Piatra Neamț, Romania in 1974. He is the director of the Wilhelm Filderman Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and has also worked as a consultant on several film and theatre productions based on historical subject matters. His documentary 'The Exit of the Trains' had its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlinale. It was followed by 'Memories from the Eastern Front', a collaboration with Radu Jude with which he was first invited to Berlinale Shorts in 2022.
- cinematography
- Kawai+Okamura
- script
- Kawai+Okamura
- animated by
- Kawai+Okamura
- music
- Kawai+Okamura
- editing
- Cătălin Cristuțiu
- production
- Alex Teodorescu (Saga Film)
- Photo
