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A teacher comes under fire for a sex tape in Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, the Berlin Film Festival competition entry from Romanian writer-director Radu Jude (Aferim!). We first meet Emi (Katia Pascariu) when she is engaged in graphic sex with her husband, who's filming an amateur video. She's wearing a feline eye…

Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians has taken the top Crystal Globe award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Czech fest’s Special Jury Prize went to Ana Katz’s Sueño Florianópolis, and Olmo Omerzu was named best director for the film Winter…

Aferim!, Romania's foreign film Oscar entry, is enjoyably challenging and hard to pin down.  Described by some critics as Shakespearean in style with a hard R-rating, the film actually evokes Sergio Leone  spaghetti westerns, however, this one is set in Eastern Europe circa 1835—a period that’s not often portrayed on…