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Review

Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov’s The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek Kotorij Udivil Vseh, 2018)

Vol. 98 (October 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
In their second feature, Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov approach issues surrounding gender politics and sexual norms through a local folk-tale.
Festival

Golden Apricot 2019

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Editors
Coverage from the 16th Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan (July 7-14).
Review

Juris Kursietis’ Oleg (Oļeg, 2019)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Is our culture of awareness conducive to our forgetting where the problems lie?
Review

Maria Saakyan’s Entropy (Entropiya, 2012)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Vadim Dumesh
In 2012, Maria Saakyan made a 180°-turn by leaving behind arthouse aesthetics in her popculture-induced and highly referential vision of apocalypse.
Review

Maria Saakyan’s I’m Going to Change My Name (Alaverdi, 2013)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Antonis Lagarias
Maria Saakyan zeroes in on conveying a sense of subjectivity in her playful coming-of-age story.
Review

Maria Saakyan’s The Lighthouse (Mayak, 2006)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Melina Tzamtzi
Melina Tzamtzi revisits the dreamlike poetry of Maria Saakyan's debut feature.
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

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.


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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