Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Radu Jude delivers an incendiary mix of unconventional form, irreverent humour and scathing commentary on hypocrisy and prejudice in our societies.

Direction: Radu Jude

Script: Radu Jude

Production: Ada Solomon

Co-Production: Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef, Jiří Konečný, Ankica Jurić Tilić

Cinematography: Marius Panduru

Editing: Cătălin Cristuțiu

Production Design: Cristian Niculescu

Costume Design: Cireșica Cuciuc

Make-Up: Bianca Boeroiu

Sound: Hrvoje Radnic, Dana Bunescu

Original Score: Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević

Visual Effects: Raoul Nadalet

Cast: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu, Alexandru Potocean, Andi Vasluianu

Original Title: BABARDEALĂ CU BUCLUC SAU PORNO BALAMUC

Original Language: Romanian

Film Production Countries: Romania, Luxembourg, Czechia, Croatia

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/babardealacubucluc

Statement of the Director/s
While the film title is mostly self-explanatory, its subtitle, 'a sketch for a popular film', would benefit from an explanation. Malraux once noted that 'Delacroix, though affirming the superiority of the finished painting over the sketch, kept many of his sketches, whose quality as works of art he considered equal to that of his best paintings.' The idea struck me as relevant and I decided to apply it in filmmaking and try to see what a film would look like if its form was left open, unfinished, like a sketch.

Biography of the Director/s
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film THE TUBE WITH A HAT, winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude's feature debut THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as AFERIM!, SCARRED HEARTS and EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY followed and won multiple awards: Silver Bear for Best Director in Berlinale 2015, Special Jury Prize in Locarno 2016 and an EFA nomination for Best Scriptwriter. The international premiere of THE DEAD NATION in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film.

Filmography of the Director/s
2021 BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
2020 UPPERCASE PRINT
2020 THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS, doc.
2018 “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS”
2017 THE DEAD NATION, doc.
2016 SCARRED HEARTS
2015 AFERIM!
2014 IT CAN PASS THROUGH THE WALL, short
2013 SHADOW OF A CLOUD, short
2012 EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY
2011 FILM FOR FRIENDS
2009 THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
2008 ALEXANDRA, short
2007 IN THHE MORNING, short
2006 THE TUBE WITH A HAT, short

Awards Won
Berlinale: Golden Bear

Production Company:
microFILM
Ada Solomon
23A Gramont Street
Bucharest, 040182, Romania
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +40 21 252 48 67

World Sales:
Heretic Outreach
Ioanna Stais
3-5, Anaxagora Street
Athens, 10552, Greece
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +30 21 67 00 33 25
Website: http://www.heretic.gr/

Press:
Rollercoaster PR
Cătălin Anchidin
23A Gramont Street
Bucharest, 040182, Romania
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +40 74 649 99 41
Website: https://www.facebook.com/microfilmromania