Perspectives

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

Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal’s It Looks Pretty from a Distance (Z daleka widok jest piekny, 2011)

In this film by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal, idyllic nature belies the decaying reality that underlies it.

In this film by Hungarian helmer Kornél Mundruczó, a young man returns to his hometown to settle down.

In Paul Negoescu’s debut feature, a young man’s love life takes a turn on New Year’s Eve.

Kirill Serebrennikov’s new film points to his background in theater.

Constructors is an absurdist parable on government control and social dissent.

With this piece, director Alexei Fedorchenko references and responds to his earlier film Silent Souls.

Marian Crişan’s new film makes another case for Romanian loserism.

This Belarusian film offers us a vision sprung from a “dreamed-up country” sculpted in wood and painstakingly arranged.

We reviewed this coming-of-age story from Poland.

Alexander Abaturov follows the 2012 Russian pre-election period in Atchinsk.