March 5 - April 7, 2024 Expect A Lot: Films by Radu Jude Series | AFERIM!, “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS,” DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, SCARRED HEARTS, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, UPPERCASE PRINT Egyptian Theatre and Los Feliz 3 Co-Presented by MUBI
ABOUT THE SERIES: The American Cinematheque is thrilled to present the films of critically acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude in celebration of his newest Golden Bear winning film DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, a fierce and darkly comic swipe at modern day life as an underpaid, fed-up production assistant in Bucharest becomes caught up in a scandal. Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film “The Tube with a Hat,” winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude’s feature debut THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as AFERIM!, SCARRED HEARTS and EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of THE DEAD NATION in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. UPPERCASE PRINT and THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered in Berlinale Forum 2020. In 2021, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, won the Golden Bear in Berlinale. In the summer of 2021, Radu Jude was present in Locarno IFF – Corti d’Autore with the short “Caricaturana” and in Venice IFF – Out of Competition with the short film “Semiotic Plastic.” In 2022, Jude returned to Berlinale with a short documentary co-directed with Cioflâncă: “Memories from the Eastern Front.” His latest short, “The Potemkinists” premiered in Quinzaine des Realisateurs 2022 and travel in over 20 festivals up to now.