FFFA - Dracula

Artificial intelligence, nationalism and vampire mythology unleash on each other in a gloriously broken iPhone-shot anthology from Romanian iconoclast Radu Jude. Radu Jude, whose Bad Luck Banging won the Golden Bear at Berlin in 2021, takes on his most anarchic project yet: a Dracula anthology conceived by a fake AI, shot in 29 days on phones after the production lost its financing, and bearing every scar proudly. Across a dozen lurching episodes, striking workers face down a vampire count, a dandy solicitor hunts the undead through medieval Transylvania, a beaded crown-clad Vlad the Impaler crashes a sci-fi future, and F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu gets buried under pop-up ads. The historical Vlad, seized upon by Romanian far-right politicians during filming, haunts the frame throughout. Jude’s thesis is blunt: AI feeds on what already exists without asking permission. So does the Dracula myth, so does nationalism, so does capitalism. Like the undead, all of them drain life from others and call it culture. Dracula is ferociously funny, deliberately cheap, and impossible to shake. Festival Appearances & Awards New York Film Festival 2025 – Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2025 – In Competition Fantastic Fest USA 2025 – Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025 – Official Selection Sitges Film Festival 2025 – Nominee, Best Motion PicturePT2H50M18+2026-04-26
Adonis Tanța
Gabriel Spahiu
Oana Maria Zaharia
Andrada Balea
Ilinca Manolache
Şerban Pavlu
Alexandru Dabija
Lukas Miko
Radu Jude
FFFA - Dracula"FFFA - Dracula"

Showtimes

April 26, 3:00 pm

Thornbury Picture House