Eight Postcards from Utopia

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Eight Postcards from Utopia

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Romania 2024 Documentary cor | p&b 71 min.

A ‘found footage’ documentary assembled exclusively from post-socialist Romanian advertisements. Drawing on the rubble of Romania’s long history of transition period, the film talks about love and death, the human body and its fragility, the natural and the supernatural and, of course, socialism and capitalism. Jumping between found poetry and an outdated encyclopedia, between trash art and Summa theologiae, the documentary teamed up Radu Jude with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz to make and hilarious takedown of meta capitalist mythology.

Presented at the Locarno Film Festival.

Romania international festivals documentary politics

direction

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz

screenplay

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz

editing

Cătălin Cristuțiu

sound

Ștefan Ruxandra

sound design

Alexandru Dumitru

production

Alexandru Teodorescu

produced by

Saga Films

world sales

Heretic Outreach

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

14