Perspectives

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

Danis Tanović’s Cirkus Columbia (2010)

Danis Tanović’s comedy, a man returns to Herzegovina from the West with plenty of money and some unfinished business.

In a wartorn landscape somewhere in the Balkans, a family is visited by a traveling circus.

A single mother tries to get a grip of her life when she is let out of prison to attend the funeral of her mother.

Alina Popescu discusses the documentaries Metrobranding and Victoria by Ana Vlad and Adi Voicu.

This story takes place in the course of one day, when a middle-aged woman is about to return home after a holiday spent at her parents' house.

Corneliu Gheorghita follows two people from a small Romanian village on their journey to fulfill the last wish of a relative.

Colette de Castro asks who is to blame for the atrocities depicted in Cristian Mungiu's film.

In Florin Şerban's feature, a young man awaits his release from prison.

Konstanty Kuzma examines realism in Cristi Puiu's feature.

Ana Ribeiro looked at the meaning of reality in Aurelia Mihai's work.