“I believe that both cinema and film festivals can only be truly relevant when their themes resonate with the present moment, offering audiences valuable insights into today’s world. As always, Radu Jude’s razor-sharp blade slices through Romanian society, revealing that, despite efforts to remove it, the tumor of antisemitism continues to spread its historical metastases into modern-day life. Recent events in Lithuania feel like the echo of a (not-so-)fictional Radu Jude story. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians draws viewers into a witty, tragicomic conversation about us and our present reality - to me, it’s the perfect festival film.” (Aistė Račaitytė)