Perspectives

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

Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Honeyland (2019)

This all-too perfect documentary dwells on the fate of tradition in the modern world.

Alex Brendea reverses the dynamics of the classic one-man versus the broken system narrative.

This creative documentary tests genre conventions only to lose its way.

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.