The latest film from director Evgeny Afineevsky blends personal accounts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with remarkable first-hand footage to tell a story of...
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An insightful Netflix documentary provides much needed background to current events in Ukraine, and clues as to why a once divided country has united to fight the...
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...
This year’s Vilnius International Film Festival is making Ukraine, and Ukrainian films, a key part of its programme. Lithuania has been one of the most resilient...
The Febiofest Bratislava International Film Festival returns after two years, its programme full of ambitious, experimental work. Conceived as a platform for promoting...
‘I passed many villages. Everywhere I heard crying: We have no bread! We are dying! Tell England that we are swelling from hunger.’ The story of Gareth...
Imprisoned twice on spurious charges by the Soviet authorities, Sergey Parajanov – claimed by both Armenia and Georgia – nevertheless managed to create one...
Should Albanian films produced during the country’s dark communist period be consigned to the waste bin? Some think so, but others – particularly the actors...
Reviews of documentary film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and a new history of Romania, Children of the Night. Anyone remotely familiar with recent Romanian...
Georgian cinema? Go on, give it a go. To make things easy for you we have picked five films that serve as the perfect introduction the contemporary Georgian cinema. What...
With the region’s film festival season in full swing, what better time to take a look at some of the most interesting movies from Central and Eastern Europe to...
Released in 1985, the epic Holocaust documentary Shoah won critical acclaim and several prominent awards. The film is now being reevaluated, however, not least the way...
