Perspectives
The latest in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European cinema.

Laila Pakalniņa’s Spoon (Karote, 2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Laila Pakalniņa constructs an experimental documentary around the serial production of plastic spoons.

Yuriy Shylov’s Projectionist (Panorama, 2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Zoe Aiano
A movie projectionist and his work-place compete for the center spot in this ambivalent documentary from Ukraine.

Antonio Lukich’s My Thoughts Are Silent (Moi dumki tikhi, 2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Zoe Aiano
A sound engineer, his mother, and a mysterious duck are the three protagonists of this image-driven road movie.

Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among the Clouds (2018)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
An Albanian director pines for (and over) religious reconciliation.

Radu Dragomir’s Mo (2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
Radu Dragomir applies the living legacy of the Romanian New Wave to themes of the present.

Karel Šindelář’s Why So Sirius? (2018)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Alice Heneghan
In Karel Šindelář's short film, laughs and tears converge over a dead body.

Larisa Sadilova’s Once in Trubchevsk (Odnazhdy v Trubchevske, 2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Moritz Pfeifer
Larisa Sadilova’s new film tells an unadorned story of adultery.

Trevor Poots’ Romania’s English Queen (Maria, inima României, 2018)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
This recent documentary looks at the adventurous life of Queen Marie of Romania.

Jacek Borcuch’s Dolce Fine Giornata (2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
Jacek Borcuch's newest film again deals with poetry, though his style has further matured since All that I Love.

Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers (La Gomera, 2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Corneliu Porumboiu's latest stint is a critical wake-up call for Europe's rusty film bureaucracy.
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