Perspectives

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

Andrey Gryazev’s Kotlovan (2020)

Russian filmmaker Andrey Gryazev assembles a film from YouTube videos addressing president Vladimir Putin.

The 1990s are back in this ideologically reserved crime film from Russia.

The author of this recent French-Italian co-production feels unwanted while visiting the village where her grandfather used to live.

Levan Akin's story of forbidden love advocates a form of progressive patriotism.

Peter Kerekes' film touches on all the problems of global capitalism without addressing any of them.

Masculinity hits back in rural Slovakia in Marko Škop’s highly unfunny feature.

In this short animation, a betrayed woman begins developing curious ways of dealing with her findings.

Two recent animation shorts shown at this year's Primanima festival in Hungary delve into the scars left behind by family traumas.

This 2D animation reflects on the way that crowds become addicted to following the lives of significant others.

Silva Khnkanosian's portrait of a post-war demining process manages to do without contextualization or stylistic gimmickry.