Contemporary Romanian cinema has undoubtedly left an indelible mark on the international film landscape, with its unique storytelling style and powerful narratives. We...
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A new portal, 35mm.online, makes hundreds of Poland’s best films available online for free. But with so much choice, what should you be watching? We have picked...
The films of the Yugoslav Black Wave transcend borders and time. Restrained by the cliched post-communist lens, the Yugoslav Black Wave is a film movement often cast...
Cinema in Central Asia arrived with the Bolsheviks. Propaganda documentaries by the likes of Dziga Vertov, made in the early years of the Soviet era, travelled...
Animation in Kosovo was a decade ago viewed as little more than cartoons for kids. Now it is increasingly seen as a valid form of art, and it’s the change in...
Azerbaijan is hardly the first country that comes to mind when it comes to cinema, although it does have a cinematic tradition dating back to 1898, when French-Russian...
Artistically, the Central and Eastern European region has many feathers in its hat, from famous composers to great works of literature. Film is another medium that has...
A new photography installation in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius is shining a light on the fate of the country’s old picture houses. If you look through the...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Latvia is celebrating a centenary of cinema this year, and the country’s National Film Centre has prepared a treat for all cinephiles interested in international...
A strange thing happened in Belgrade in November of 2014, the kind of thing that can really only occur in a post-socialist country. On the evening of November 21...
While the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works of many cultural events, a lot of international film festivals are soldiering on — some only online, some...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the film industry in Central and Eastern Europe experienced a dramatic vacuum in terms of finance. This, together with the...