Estonian premiere
Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World
Part One: We follow Angela, an overworked production assistant who must drive around Bucharest to film the casting for a “safety at work” video commissioned by a multinational company. Soon she encounters Marian, a half-paralysed worker, who gets the part.
Part Two: When Marian reveals on camera that his work-related accident is due to the company’s negligence, his statement ignites a scandal, which forces him to re-invent his story to suit the company’s narrative.
True to form, Golden Bear winner Radu Jude, sets his absurdist comedic drama in two parts. In a dizzying landscape, cinema, capitalism, and technology meet the political sociology of the post-totalitarian digital world.
The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize, and has also screened in Toronto and New York.
Radu Jude (1977)
Filmography:
valik/selected: Cea mai fericita fata din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009), Toata lumea din familia noastra (Kõik meie perekonnas, PÖFF 2012), Aferim! (PÖFF 2015), Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari ("Mind ei huvita, kui me ka läheme ajalukku barbaritena", PÖFF 2018)