A bailiff evicts a homeless man from a cellar, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that must be resolved. Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.
Ion (Gabriel Spahiu) is a homeless former athlete in the northern Romanian city of Cluj, the capital city in Transylvania, Romania. One day, bailiff Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) knocks on the door of the basement where Ion has been squatting. An unexpected event creates a moral crisis leaving Orsolya with a monumental guilt only to be consoled with explanations and equivocations that fail to soothe her tormented consciousness. This is a bracing spiritual and ethical inquiry into the universal (and very relevant) problems involving immigration, assimilation, housing, and individual and national duty to aid those in need. Featuring a terrific central performance by Tompa, both comic and affecting, the film will bring reassurance to anyone who was worrying that European art cinema had lost its combative spirit. (Subtitles)
Romania/Switzerland 2025 Radu Jude 109m
