Vol. 146 (Summer 2024)

The Ideological Fashioning of Femininity in Soviet-Era Cinema

Nora Furlong revisits Grigori Aleksandrov’s 1936 Circus and Ernst Lubitsch’s 1939 Ninotchka as well as two competing visions of femininity.

Coverage from the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (28 June–6 July).

Adam Martinec portrays an age-old tradition against the backdrop of an awkward family gathering.

Shoghakat Vardanyan’s debut is a raw, immersive, and hard-to-watch story of grief.

Armenian filmmaker Shoghakat Vardanyan recounts what it meant to develop a film about her brother's wartime disappearance.

This film tells the story of Libuše Jarcovjáková, a Czech photographer who struggled to make a name for herself throughout her life.

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov team up again for this satirical take on the futility of hierarchies.

Live coverage from the 23rd Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj (14–24 June).