Perspectives

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

Michale Boganim’s Land of Oblivion (2011)

In her first feature film, Michale Boganim traces back the intertwined lives of the inhabitants of Prypjat, a Ukrainian town near Chernobyl.

In Angelina Nikonova’s feature, an upper-crust woman is crushed by Russian society. Will she take revenge or will she surrender?

In Aleksei German Jr.’s short, the after-math of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is explored on board of an airplane.

Moritz Pfeifer gives a first impression of Alexander Sokurov’s latest film.

Jacek Borcuch's feature follows Janek, the member of a punk band, who tries to resist the obstacles of Socialist Poland in the '80s.

Radu Jude's first feature is a coming of age story about a girl whose life changes when she wins the main prize in an advertising campaign.

Cristi Puiu's Aurora illustrates 36 hours in the life of a killer.

Constantin Popescu focuses on an anti-hero who tries to deal with his environment.

Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy is the story of a truck driver whose journey ends up in an abandoned village.

Alexander Mindadze’s feature is set in the night of the catastrophe in Chernobyl ’86.