Perspectives

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

Aibeck Daiyrbekov’s The Song of the Tree (Darak yry, 2018)

This historic film introduces musicals into Kyrgyz film culture.

Gogol Doc blesses the audience with a fly-on-the-wall view into the genesis of a 2016 Ukrainian avant-garde festival.

This creative documentary portrays three brothers from Czechia's public sphere.

In searching for the human face of a rightwing conspiracy theorist, this documentary risks contributing to the normalization of extremist views.

How do you make sense of a loved one’s daily life in a parallel universe?

A woman's spontaneous participation and triumph in an all-male Epiphany event spells trouble.

Hamlet makes several cameos in Alexander Gorchilin's frustrating if highly aestheticized debut about Gen Yer aimlessness.

Hristiana Raykova portrays a communal bath's group of frequent visitors in Varna, Bulgaria.

Monsters depicts the crisis point in a relationship between a young, seemingly well-to-do couple.

Clément Cogitore documents the rivalry between two families living in a remote part of the Siberian taiga.