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Editorial

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Editors
Festival

Cannes 2019

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Editors
We were on the Croisette for the 72nd Cannes film festival (May 14-25).
Review

Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers (La Gomera, 2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Corneliu Porumboiu's latest stint is a critical wake-up call for Europe's rusty film bureaucracy.
Review

Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole (2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
In steering clear from depicting graphic violence in a WWII drama, Russian director Kantemir Balagov keeps his promise to his mentor Alexander Sokurov - almost.
Review

Nariman Aliev’s Homeward (Evge, 2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Antonis Lagarias
Nariman Aliev depicts the wounds that deportations and population exchange leave open in the minds and souls of the affected.
Review

Yaroslav Lodygin’s The Wild Fields (Dyke pole, 2018)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Colette de Castro
This adaptation of a contemporary cult classic does not have time on its side.
Review

Alexander Belinski and Agne Dovydaityte’s The Sun Sets in the East (Saulė leidžias rytuose, 2018)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Lucian Tion
This promising debut recaptures the past through the apolitical musings from a so-called "peasant's journal".
Review

Marko Šantić’s Together (Skupaj, 2018)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Moritz Pfeifer
This well-meaning film about a legal battle over same-sex marriage ends up idealizing democratic compromise.
Review

Bujar Alimani’s The Delegation (Delegacioni, 2018)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Moritz Pfeifer
The impending regime change in Albania post-1989 provides Bujar Alimani with many opportunities for dry humor.
Review

Nora Agapi’s Timebox (2018)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Isabel Jacobs
Two documentary filmmakers, father and daughter, enter a creative dialog about their collective past and the nature of cinema.
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The East European Film Bulletin is a journalistic and literary project dedicated to the criticism of films related to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

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