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goEast 2017

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Editors
Live coverage from the 17th goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden (April 26-May 2).
Review

Adéla Komrzý’s Teaching War (Výchova k válce, 2016)

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Rohan Crickmar
A supremely assured attack on the right-wing patriotic militarism that is rearing its head in the Czech Republic, as with many other countries in Central Europe.
Review

Jan Hřebejk’s The Teacher (Ucitelka, 2016)

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Julia Zelman
Julia Zelman reviews this film about a Communist-era teacher who uses her position to exact favors from her students' families.
Review

Tereza Nvotová’s Filthy (Špína, 2017)

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Konstanty Kuzma
Tereza Nvotová takes on the sensitive issue of rape.
Review

Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film (Rodinný film, 2015)

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Rohan Crickmar
In Olmo Omerzu’s second feature-length work it is a dog’s life, for both a bourgeois Prague family and their erstwhile canine companion.
Essay

Helena Třeštíková’s Mallory (2014)

Vol. 71 (January 2017) by Moritz Pfeifer
Is Helena Třeštíková aware of her work's moral implications?
Review

Miroslav Janek’s Normal Autistic Film (Normální autistický film, 2016)

Vol. 67 (September 2016) by Patricia Bass
This documentary by Miroslav Janek tries its best to normalize autism, and succeeds - for the most part.
Review

Petr Kazda and Tomas Weinreb’s I, Olga Hepnarova (Já, Olga Hepnarová, 2016)

Vol. 63 (March 2016) by Rohan Crickmar
I, Olga Hepnarova is a masterfully shot slow-burner about an unlikely murderer.
Review

Petr Václav’s The Way Out (Cesta Ven, 2014)

Vol. 44 (August 2014) by Lilla Puskás
Lilla Puskás lauds the way how Roma protagonists are represented in this movie, which is one of the few Czech Roma films.


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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