Perspectives

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

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

In their second feature, Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov approach issues surrounding gender politics and sexual norms through a local folk-tale.

Is our culture of awareness conducive to our forgetting where the problems lie?

In 2012, Maria Saakyan made a 180°-turn by leaving behind arthouse aesthetics in her popculture-induced and highly referential vision of apocalypse.

Maria Saakyan zeroes in on conveying a sense of subjectivity in her playful coming-of-age story.

Filmmaking duo Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov travel Eastern Europe to reflect on the lasting legacy of "people's palaces".

This tendentious documentary settles old scores concerning Communism in Russia.

Cătălin Mitulescu embraces the style and themes of the Romanian New Wave with this story about the ethics of police conduct.

Laila Pakalniņa constructs an experimental documentary around the serial production of plastic spoons.

A movie projectionist and his work-place compete for the center spot in this ambivalent documentary from Ukraine.

A sound engineer, his mother, and a mysterious duck are the three protagonists of this image-driven road movie.