Little Women: Tsotsorkova Poetic Study of Female Solidarity
Svetla Tsotsorkova’s assured sophomore feature proves that the Bulgarian filmmaker has an unparalleled eye for the raw,...
Rewriting History: Bereznakova Presents Fresh View on Two Decade Poli-Scandal
After working short documentaries, experimental and television film formats, Slovak director and video artist Barbora...
Olga Bieniek's rock documentary Kult Film is an ode to Poland's incredibly longstanding band Kult whose energetic members are also nailing the fatherhood game....
Curator is a Georgian/Russian co-production directed by Petr Levchenko and presented at the Warsaw International Film Festival in the Competition 1-2 section, reserved to...
Minimizing Style to Maximize Effect: Levchenko Goes Deep in Russian Murder Drama
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary the curator is a person who is in...
Hidden Treasure: Jonynas Stages Greek Tragedy against Backdrop of Eastern Europe
A student of Krzysztof Zanussi, Lithuanian director Ignas Jonynas infuses his third feature film...
Walls of existence: Politics & Pettiness find a Way Through the Cracks of Everyday Life in Bulgarian Debut
Bulgarian duo Vesela Kazakova and Mina Mileva’s...
Pray the Lord My Soul To Take: Sandulescu’s Poignant and Witty Meditation on Mortality
Liviu Săndulescu’s Carturan is a tale about bribery, the uncaring bureaucratic...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.