Tag: Ukrainian Cinema

The Editorial Office | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Winds of War: Bondarchuk Straddles a World On a Wire While it should play like an absurdist black comedy, Roman Bondarchuk’s sophomore narrative feature...

Grey Bees | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review

Life During Wartime: Dmytro Moiseiev Chronicles Everyday Survival In Donbass Before Russia’s Invasion How did life go on for people living in the grey zone...

Exclusive: Clip for Roman Bondarchuk’s The Editorial Office (2024 Berlinale)

We've got an exclusive clip to Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk's The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya) - his sophomore feature film was selected for the Forum...

Stepne | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Land That Time Forgot: Vroda Mines Eroding Memories in Speculative Debut Thomas Wolfe meant You Can’t Go Home Again metaphorically, but such might literally...

Butterfly Vision | Review

Coming Home: Nakonechnyi Explores Collateral Damage in Prescient Drama While the near decade long conflict between Russian and Ukraine has spilled into full-blown war, a...

Rock. Paper. Grenade | 2022 Warsaw Intl. Film Festival Review

Three-time Jumps: Tsilyk’s Debut is a Light Look at the 90s in Ukraine A man and a boy - the former a fully written text,...

This Machine Kills Fascists: Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Next Looks at Everyday, Current Day Kyiv

With a one-two masterwork punch in Venice Film Festival selections Atlantis (2019) and Reflection (2022), it is in the face of the war crime...

Reflection | Review

In the Fog Mirror: Vasyanovych Punishes with Numbing Exercise on War & Trauma Following up on his international breakout, Atlantis (2019), Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych...

Invisible | 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival Review

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...

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