''Eight Postcards from Utopia'' () is a 2024

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documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

directed by

Radu Jude Radu Jude (; born 28 March 1977) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Most known for his Golden Bear winner film ''Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn'' (2021). Biography In 2003, Jude graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Med ...

and philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz.

Premise

Composed entirely of found footage drawn from

post-communist Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments ...

advertisements, ''Eight Postcards from Utopia'' explores the human condition through the context of Romanian economic transition. The film is divided into eight thematic segments followed by an epilogue.

Production

Post-production on ''Eight Postcards from Utopia'' took place in late 2023. The film was supported in part by a grant from the Romanian Film Centre.

Release

''Eight Postcards from Utopia'' debuted out of competition in the ''Fuori Concorso'' section of the

77th Locarno Film Festival The 77th Locarno Film Festival was held from 7 August to 17 August 2024. '' The Crowd'' by King Vidor, accompanied by live music from the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, screened the night before the festival began, and '' The Flood'' by Gian ...

on 10 August 2024. The film screened at the festival alongside another new work by Jude, ''Sleep #2'', under the title ''Paradise Dreams: 2 Found-footage Films''. In July 2024, Heretic acquired the film for international distribution.

References

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* {{Radu Jude 2024 documentary films Romanian documentary films 2024 films Collage film Films directed by Radu Jude