Good luck decoding much about Radu Jade's Kontinental '25 from its trailer

That’s not to say there’s nothing going on in today’s clip—far from it. The 45-second trailer features audio of the film’s protagonist Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) reciting the Lord’s Prayer, overlaid with intriguing discordant imagery. There’s a shot of Orsolya at some sort of robot dinosaur park, one of a man with a trashbag on a chairlift, and a phone screen showing Deadpool nerfing the camera.  

The film’s synopsis is almost as vague: “Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she must evict a homeless man who lives in the basement of a building. An unexpected event creates a moral crisis she tries to solve as best she can.”

Kontinental ’25, which a press release describes as a “twisted take” on Italian filmmaker Robert Rosellini’s Europe ’51, premieres tomorrow at Berlinale. “When we question our own reactions to tragedies, we often find them on the verge of ridicule,” Jude told Variety ahead of the film’s premiere. “I’m not judging—I do it too—but I find that there’s a comedic, almost Balzacian ‘human comedy’ in these contradictions. It’s less a satire and more a reflection of the absurdity and complexity of human reactions.”