This Spring, attend a film festival coordinated by several UBC student bodies and CENES’ Modern European Studies Program!
Films
March 24, 6 PM The Tube with a Hat, Shadow of a Cloud + Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn
March 27, 6 PM Plastic Semiotic, The Potemkinists + Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
March 31, 10 AM Vancouver Premiere of Eight Postcards from Utopia + Q&A with Directors Radu Jude and Christian Ferencz-Flatz
About the Program
Born in 1977 in Bucharest, Romania, Radu Jude began his career as an assistant director before directing several short films. He transitioned to feature films with The Happiest Girl in the World and went on to create films such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, and Uppercase Print. His feature Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2021. His latest film, Kontinental ’25, premiered at the Berlinale 2025 and won the Silver Bear for best screenplay.
Christian Ferencz-Flatz (born 1981) is a philosopher and media scholar, affiliated with the Alexandru Dragomir Institute for Philosophy in Bucharest. His research interests include phenomenology, critical theory, philosophy of history, and film and media philosophy. He has published numerous essays and translated key theoretical works by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer into Romanian. Alongside Radu Jude, he co-authored the experimental documentary Eight Postcards from Utopia, which premiered at Locarno in 2024. He is currently developing a research project on post-socialist advertising. With the daringly direct and moving works of Radu Jude and Christian Ferencz-Flatz, this screening series offers a unique perspective on viewing the world through innovative and precise filmmaking.
Their film exemplifies how academic and artistic voices can come together to create vibrant conversations about history, the present moment, and the future. Concluding with a Q&A with the directors, this series invites imaginative and interdisciplinary discussions that push the boundaries of both cinema and thought.
Event Sponsored by: UBC Film Society, UBC Modern European Studies, UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, UBC Department of Theatre & Film
Screening Series Programmed, Coordinated, and Moderated by: Dr. William Brown, Dr. Ilinca Iuraşcu, and Chuiwen Kong
