Screening of "The Dead Nation" by Radu Jude

On July 24, 2026, at 7:00 PM, the "Zhyva Pamiat" ("Living Memory") exhibition center (46A Yuriya Illienka St.) will host a screening of The Dead Nation (Țara moartă, Romania, 2017) by director Radu Jude.

The film is a documentary essay built from photographs by Costică Acsinte, taken in a small Romanian town in the 1930s and 1940s. Its narration, read by the director himself, draws on excerpts from the diary of Jewish physician and writer Emil Dorian alongside archival propaganda recordings from wartime Romania. Together they reveal what the photographs do not show — the rise of antisemitism and the tragedy of the Holocaust in Romania.

The film had its world premiere at the Transylvania International Film Festival and its international premiere in the Signs of Life section of the Locarno Film Festival, later screening at IDFA, BFI London Film Festival, and Haifa IFF, among others. Radu Jude is a winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021 and the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary 2018.

The screening is part of "Research Space," the Babyn Yar Memorial's summer public program dedicated to family memory, archives, and history.

Free admission, registration required: https://forms.gle/U1RLF6piYCAu6V4eA