Perspectives

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

Micol Roubini’s The Way to the Mountains (La strada per le montagne, 2019)

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.

Can the wind account for the "thrilling" drama summoned by Michał Bielawski’s documentary?

Svetla Tsotsorkova hunts for clichees and prejudices about life on the periphery.