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TIFF 2017
Interview

Andrei Dăscălescu on Planet Petrila

Vol. 76 (Summer 2017) by Zoe Aiano
Documentary filmmaker Andrei Dăscălescu speaks about his portrait of a mining town struggling to resist its obliteration.
Review

Andrei Dăscălescu’s Planet Petrila (Planeta Petrila, 2017)

Vol. 76 (Summer 2017) by Zoe Aiano
Following events in a Romanian mining town, Planet Petrila charts the struggles of the local inhabitants as they attempt to save industrial buildings from destruction.
Review

Šarūnas Bartas’ Frost (2017)

Vol. 76 (Summer 2017) by Zoe Aiano
Šarūnas Bartas addresses the Ukrainian elephant in the room by thematically picking up the country’s ongoing, political crisis.
Review

Dmytro Moyseyev’s Chrysanthemum’s Time (Chas khrizantem, 2017)

Vol. 76 (Summer 2017) by Zoe Aiano
A recent widow roams through Kiev to re-negotiate her place in the world.
Review

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Glory (Slava, 2016)

Vol. 75 (May 2017) by Moritz Pfeifer
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's second feature is a technically flawless bleak comedy about an ordinary man's descent to hell.
Review

Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről, 2017)

Vol. 72 (February 2017) by Zoe Aiano
Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul, winner of the Golden Bear, suffers from its stylistic eclecticism.
Review

Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’ My Happy Family (Chemi bednieri ojakhi, 2017)

Vol. 72 (February 2017) by Zoe Aiano
This Georgian feature tells the story of a family woman and her sudden urge to live an independent life.
Review

Călin Peter Netzer’s Ana, mon amour (2017)

Vol. 72 (February 2017) by Zoe Aiano
Călin Peter Netzer’s latest feature revolves around a couple and their antipodal fates.
Review

Szabolcs Hajdu’s It’s Not the Time of My Life (Ernelláék Farkaséknál, 2016)

Vol. 70 (December 2016) by Anna Batori
Szabolcs Hajdu is back with a feature starring his family as cast and their apartment as setting.
Review

Bartosz M. Kowalski’s Playground (Plac zabaw, 2016)

Vol. 68 (October 2016) by Jack Page
Bartosz Kowalski's controversial debut features follows two school boys as they spread danger and despair.
Review

Radu Jude’s Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate, 2016)

Vol. 67 (September 2016) by Zoe Aiano
Radu Jude's innovative feature is based on the writings of Romanian author Max Blecher.
Essay

France Štiglic’s Valley of Peace (Dolina Miru, 1956)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Clarence Tsui
Clarence Tsui retraces the unlikely historical background of this 1956 Yugoslav drama.
Review

Rok Biček’s Class Enemy (Razredni sovražnik, 2013)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Colette de Castro
Rok Biček’s first feature is a fascinating psychodrama which concentrates on the metaphysics of blame.


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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