Uppercase Print, the newest fiction feature by the prolific Radu Jude will take part in the 70th, jubilee-edition of the Berlinale as part of the Forum line-up, along with his newest documentary, The Exit of the Trains - an absolute premiere for a Romanian director. Starting from Gianina Cărbunariu's eponymous theatre play, the film stages the story of teenaged dissident Mugur Călinescu, who, in the fall of 1981, scrawled a series of anti-system manifestos on the walls of the Communist Party Central Committee in Botoșani and who, just four years later, died of leukemia, even though some suspect that he might have been poisoned or irradiated. Between scenes based on documents and wiretaps put together by the Romanian secret police, acted out in a Brechtian manner, the film also weaves in an ample and kaleidoscopic selection of National Television archival footage shot in the same year, an entire audiovisual universe that acted as a concealer to the world that Mugur Călinescu abhorred. The film is also slated to be released in local cinemas, starting with the 21st of February.

Flavia Dima

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.

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