Amanda Sonesson, Author at Lossi 36

New filmfestival to showcase Eastern European Cinema

September 23, 2022

Next week is the premiere of Glasgow's first-ever Eastern European Film Festival. We interviewed one of the organizers, Kirill Kartashov, about dissident culture and film-making.

As Good as it Gets: reviewing Vladimir Lorchenkov’s The Good Life Elsewhere

February 25, 2022

Amanda Sonesson reviews Vladimir Lorchenkov's dark and humorous novel The Good Life Elsewhere.

Lithuania’s Enfant Terrible: Romas Zabarauskas is bending the rules of filmmaking and the world is here to watch

December 27, 2021

Amanda Sonesson interviews Romas Zabarauskas about his career as a filmmaker, his queer activism and the themes that inspire his art and social actions.

“We Believe in the Power of Applying a Feminist Lens on the Issues We Discuss”: an interview with the young women behind Lazy Women

March 25, 2021

An open platform that seeks to challenge the negative connotations connected to laziness and women's lives. Amanda Sonesson interviewed the three young women behind Lazy Women.

An Ode to Grief: Reviewing Look at Him by Anna Starobinets

December 20, 2020

First and foremost, Anna Starobinets’s memoir Look at Him is a testament to the sorrow of losing an unborn child. As such, it’s intended to comfort women and families suffering through the same [...]

Reviewing The Shadow in the East by Aliide Naylor

November 29, 2020

Zooming in on the Baltic states, Aliide Naylor’s debut The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front takes the reader on a journey through time and space. Fragmented memories of [...]

“They Cannot Fight Us All if We Go Out Together”: will Poland’s new abortion law cause society to snap?

November 27, 2020

On 22 October Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal voted through a proposal to further restrict an already strict law on abortion. The ruling to ban the abortion of severe and irreversibly impaired [...]

Somebody I Used to Know? Reviewing Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

November 9, 2020

While reading the introduction to Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit, I have come to the conclusion that if the term “woke” existed and could have been applicable to 18th century Russia, this [...]

“Queer Activists Have Been at the Forefront of the Protests Since the Beginning” — LGBTQ+ lead fight in chaotic Belarus

September 18, 2020

This is a translation of the article “‘Queera personer har deltagit i protesterna från start’ – HBTQ+ kamp i kaotiskt Belarus,” originally published in Swedish by the anarchist magazine Brand. [...]

Searching for Brighter Memories: the art and inquiry of Johanna Rannula

June 29, 2020

Amanda Sonesson speaks to Johanna Rannula about her exhibit Siberian White, documenting the experiences of Estonians forcibly relocated to Siberia by the USSR.