TIFF 2019

Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among the Clouds (2018)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
An Albanian director pines for (and over) religious reconciliation.

Radu Dragomir’s Mo (2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
Radu Dragomir applies the living legacy of the Romanian New Wave to themes of the present.

Robert Budina on A Shelter Among the Clouds

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
Robert Budina speaks about the story of his feature A Shelter Among the Clouds, and the difficult situation that inspired it.

Trevor Poots’ Romania’s English Queen (Maria, inima României, 2018)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
This recent documentary looks at the adventurous life of Queen Marie of Romania.

Jacek Borcuch’s Dolce Fine Giornata (2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Colette de Castro
Jacek Borcuch's newest film again deals with poetry, though his style has further matured since All that I Love.

Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers (La Gomera, 2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Corneliu Porumboiu's latest stint is a critical wake-up call for Europe's rusty film bureaucracy.

Nora Agapi’s Timebox (2018)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Isabel Jacobs
Two documentary filmmakers, father and daughter, enter a creative dialog about their collective past and the nature of cinema.

Teona Strugar Mitevska’s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija, 2019)

Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Zoe Aiano
A woman's spontaneous participation and triumph in an all-male Epiphany event spells trouble.

Alexander Gorchilin’s Acid (Kislota, 2018)

Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Konstanty Kuzma
Hamlet makes several cameos in Alexander Gorchilin's frustrating if highly aestheticized debut about Gen Yer aimlessness.

Marius Olteanu’s Monsters. (Monștri., 2019)

Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Monsters depicts the crisis point in a relationship between a young, seemingly well-to-do couple.

László Csuja’s Blossom Valley (Virágvölgy, 2018)

Vol. 89 (November 2018) by Jack Page
László Csuja tries genre constraints in his coming-of-age road movie.

Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari, 2018)

Vol. 86 (Summer 2018) by Moritz Pfeifer
Radu Jude explores Romania’s complicity in the destruction of European Jews in his daring and intelligent film.

Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci’s Bota (2014)

Vol. 50 (February 2015) by Ana Grgić
Ana Grgić writes EEFB's first review of a majorly Albanian film, which portrays Albania in the dream-like microcosm of a remote bar.

Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait (2011)

Vol. 9 (September 2011) by Moritz Pfeifer
In Angelina Nikonova’s feature, an upper-crust woman is crushed by Russian society. Will she take revenge or will she surrender?