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

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.

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.

Nariman Aliev’s Homeward (Evge, 2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Antonis Lagarias
Nariman Aliev depicts the wounds that deportations and population exchange leave open in the minds and souls of the affected.
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