The Film Gallery is pleased to present The Exit of the Trains, the second installation by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, developed with Adrian Cioflâncă in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou. The exhibition runs alongside a full retrospective of his films at mk2 Bibliothèque × Centre Pompidou (23 September - 11 October). 

The Exit of the Trains extends and deepens the cinematic experience undertaken in 2020 by filmmaker Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă (historian and co-author of the film) through their exploration of archival material documenting the Iași Pogrom, which took place in June 1941 in this city in eastern Romania. The authors continue their demanding historiographical work while offering a critical corrective to negationist narratives that seek to delegitimize Romania’s responsibility in the horrors of the Holocaust.
By making the moral choice of a sober and rigorous approach, both the film and the installation fulfill a fundamental mission for any committed filmmaker: to reveal the missing images and to provoke a confrontation between the past and the urgent issues of today’s media landscape.

About Radu Jude

Born in 1977 in Bucharest, Radu Jude is the author of a rich and transgressive body of cinematic work. His films span a wide range of formats and include The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), Aferim! (2015, Golden Bear at Berlinale), The Dead Nation (2017, documentary), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018, Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary), Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn (2021, Golden Bear at Berlinale), Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023, Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival), Eight Postcards from Utopia (2024, with Christian Ferencz-Flatz). His work has been the subject of multiple retrospectives, most recently at FIDMarseille in July 2025. 

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The installation is made possible with the generous support of SBAE (https://sbae.nl/), who provided all equipment and installation assistance. 

In collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Re:Voir, Cinéma L’Archipel, Kyralina, French Institute in Romania - Bucharest 

Media partners: Scena9, Films in Frame, East European Film Bulletin