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Essay

Vitaly Mansky’s Under the Sun (V luchakh solnca, 2015)

Vol. 67 (September 2016) by Moritz Pfeifer
Vytaly Mansky's poignant documentary challenges the widely held belief that the indoctrination of people living under a terror regime like North Korea is complete.
Festival

TIFF 2016

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Editors
Live coverage from the 15th Transilvania International Film Festival (May 27-June 5).
Interview

Bogdan Mirică on Dogs

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Zoe Aiano
Mirică speaks about his transition from screenwriter to director, the creative process and problems with mainstream storytelling.
Review

Tomasz Wasilewski’s United States of Love (Zjednoczone stany miłości, 2016)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Zoe Aiano
Tomasz Wasilewski's United States of Love intertwines the stories of four women during the post-'89 transitional period.
Review

László Nemes’ Son of Saul (Saul fia, 2015)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Jack Page
Nemes’ Son of Saul is a sobering portrayal of one man’s final search for atonement in the living nightmare of World War II.
Review

Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada (2016)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Zoe Aiano
In Cristi Puiu's latest film, embittered disputes prelude a meal that may never get eaten.
Review

Petr Zelenka’s Lost in Munich (Ztraceni v Mnichově, 2015)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Zoe Aiano
This film addresses the Munich Agreement (or Betrayal) of 1938 through the story of Pavel (Martin Myšička), a frustrated journalist on the brink of losing his career and his wife.
Review

Bogdan Mirică’s Dogs (Câini, 2016)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Zoe Aiano
Bogdan Mirică's debut feature is a meditation on some classical Western themes.
Review

Adrian Sitaru’s Illegitimate (Ilegitim, 2016)

Vol. 62 (February 2016) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Adrian Sitaru joins the Berlinale Forum with a powerful addition to Romania's long list of meta-films.
Review

Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia (2015)

Vol. 59 (November 2015) by Moritz Pfeifer
Alexander Sokurov gets tangled up in delusional idealizations of art in his meditation on the Louvre.
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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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