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Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and the now rather tarnished lustre of EU membership: Is nothing sacred in Ivana Mladenović’s “Sorella di Clausura”? No indeed, this raucous, no-holds-barred Romanian comedy unfolds — make that unravels — in an unmistakably Radu Jude-ian register, right down to the contributions of Jude’s frequent Dp Marius Panduru, and actress Katia Pascariu, star of his Golden Bear-winning act of iconoclasm “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”.

But while Mladenović and her co-writers Adrian Schiop and Momir Milosević have a lot to say about the singularly screwed-up state of the world right now, they also conspire with Pascariu to suggest a novel, uniquely undignified way of navigating it — just outmatch its crazy with your own. Like a million kitschy bar signs the world over uproariously claim: You don’t have to be mad to work here,...

Eugen Jebeleanu’s Internal Zero will have its world premiere at the third edition of Smart7, the travelling competition across seven European film festivals.

The seven titles, one from each of the festival’s respective countries, will screen at theVilnius International Film Festial in Lithuania, which runs from March 7-23, before travelling to Portugal’s IndieLisboa, Spain’s Filmadrid, Transilvania International Film Festival, Poland’s New Horizons, Iceland’s Reykjavik and finishing at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

Internal Zero follows a secretary navigating a hostile Bucharest and stars Valentina Zaharia, Cendana Trifan, Cristina Drăghici and Katia Pascariu. It...