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Review

Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping for Beginners (Domakinstvo za pocetnici, 2023)

Vol. 140 (December 2023) by Jack Page
Another story about modern families fluctuating between hardship, intimacy, and comic relief.
Essay

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man in the World (Najsreќniot Čovek na Svetot, 2022)

Vol. 135 (May 2023) by Ana Grgić and Antonis Lagarias
What is the role of justice and forgiveness in the process of overcoming collective trauma?
Review

Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Honeyland (2019)

Vol. 99 (November 2019) by Zoe Aiano
This all-too perfect documentary dwells on the fate of tradition in the modern world.
Review

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija, 2019)

Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Zoe Aiano
A woman's spontaneous participation and triumph in an all-male Epiphany event spells trouble.
Interview

Gjorce Stavreski on The Secret Ingredient

Vol. 79 (November 2017) by Ana Grgić
Staverski discusses how he would situate himself within Balkan cinema, and what challenges he faced in making his film.
Review

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s When the Day Had no Name (2017)

Vol. 73 (March 2017) by Carlos Kong
Teona Strugar Mitevska dramatizes a recent Macedonian hate-crime.
Interview

Teona Strugar Mitevska and Labina Mitevska on The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears

Vol. 14 (February 2012) by Colette de Castro
Colette de Castro met with director Tenoa Strugar Mitevska and actress Labina Mitevska to discuss their new film.
Review

Teona S. Mitevska’s The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears (Man on Aspahlt, 2012)

Vol. 14 (February 2012) by Colette de Castro
This is a film about two strong women, one living in France and the other in Macedonia…
Review

Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain (1994)

Vol. 13 (January 2012) by Konstanty Kuzma
In this triptych, Milcho Manchevski examines the difficult political atmosphere of post-Socialist (ex-)Yugoslavia.
Review

Milcho Manchevski’s Mothers (Majki, 2010)

Vol. 3 (March 2011) by Claire Bonnefoy
Director Milcho Manchevski discusses the meaning of truth in three episodes that share a common motive.


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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