Four classic films from the emerging Europe region are set to be shown alongside with 25 other classics of world cinema at Cannes Classics, a popular sidebar to the...
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Second-wave feminism is often misconstrued as an American-centric movement, yet its ideals of emancipation spread far wider and deeper. This is particularly true of...
It should have been a week of celebration for Dua Lipa, the London-born pop star of Kosovo-Albanian parents. Her latest, critically acclaimed album, Future Nostalgia...
Earlier this month, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius came up with yet another innovative solution to improve the city’s post-pandemic social and cultural life: a...
Ever since its first discovery in 1908 by the Serbian archaeologist Miloje Vasić, the so-called Vinča culture — a Neolithic community that spanned most of Serbia and...
In many ways the 2010s was the decade that marked the death of the musical guilty pleasure. It was the decade when everything went mainstream, the decade when just about...
Walking the centres of Serbia’s towns and cities, a visitor could be excused for thinking that Serbian is written only in the Latin script. Billboards and...
How old is Tirana? One hundred, four hundred, or thousands of years old? This year the city celebrated a century as the capital of Albania, but today’s Tirana is...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is one of the oldest A-list competitive feature film festivals in the world, joining the ranks of Berlin, Cannes...
The completion of the MO Modern Art Museum in the Lithuania capital Vilnius in the autumn of 2018 was one of the most eagerly-awaited cultural openings in the Baltics...
Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature for...
Political oppression is a tale as old as politics itself. For young Czech director Patrik Krivanek, the battle for freedom against political injustice served as...
Street art as a whole, including graffiti and murals, has exploded on the art scene worldwide. And now a new generation of artists is expressing itself through combining...