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Review

Svetla Tsotsorkova’s Sister (Sestra, 2019)

Vol. 100 (December 2019) by Lucian Tion
Svetla Tsotsorkova hunts for clichees and prejudices about life on the periphery.
Review

Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov’s Palace for the People (2019)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Lucian Tion
Filmmaking duo Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov travel Eastern Europe to reflect on the lasting legacy of "people's palaces".
Interview

Hristiana Raykova on The Pit

Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Raykova explains how she found her film's setting and themes, how she settled on its aesthetics, and what it is like to film a predominantly male environment as a woman.
Review

Hristiana Raykova’s The Pit (Die Grube, 2019)

Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Hristiana Raykova portrays a communal bath's group of frequent visitors in Varna, Bulgaria.
Review

Simona Kostova’s Thirty (Dreissig, 2018) & Ena Sendijarević’s Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019)

Vol. 92 (February 2019) by Rohan Crickmar
Two female filmmakers with Balkan background work around the edges of their own biographies.
Interview

Simona Kostova and Ceylan Ataman-Checa on Thirty

Vol. 92 (February 2019) by Rohan Crickmar
Director-producer duo Simona Kostova and Ceylan Ataman-Checa speak about the making of their impressive no-budget debut feature.
Review

Stephan Komandarev’s Directions (Posoki, 2017)

Vol. 85 (May 2018) by Zoe Aiano
It is literally night on earth in this cab-set feature from Bulgaria.
Essay

S. Komandarev, M. Szymków, L. Dombrovszky, E. Moskvina & M. E. Scheidt’s Occupation 1968 (2018)

Vol. 84 (April 2018) by Konstanty Kuzma
This collaborative feature misidentifies the ghosts that haunt Europe today.
Review

Bojina Panayotova’s I See Red People (Je vois rouge, 2018)

Vol. 82 (February 2018) by Zoe Aiano
This highly personal docu-essay revisits Bulgaria's Communist past through a generational conflict.
Review

Metodi Andonov’s The Goat Horn (Koziyat rog, 1972)

Vol. 78 (October 2017) by Yoana Pavlova
What does this Bulgarian classic have to offer beyond its shock aesthetics?
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