Eastern Europe

Lukas Baake reviews Yevgenia Belorusets' "War Diary", a captivating reflection on the individual and collective experience of war.

Maja Soomägi takes a look at this region's entries for Eurovision 2023 and what we can expect from the Liverpool-held competition

The traditional melodies and lyrics of Ukrainian folk music have been used in various genres, ranging from rap or pop to rock and electro. Aleksej Tikhonov has selected seven songs of this [...]

Marianna Jaśniak reviews "Pamfir," a deeply unsettling but rewarding film by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk that is both universal and inextricably Ukrainian

In his latest opinion piece, Daniel Jarosak examines Ukraine’s demography dilemma and what solutions exist for a post-war Ukraine

Yana Prokhorenko discusses how the war in Ukraine has forced people to be in a constant state of uncertainty, and how this can be tolerated

Alexandra Kuenning reviews "Occasional Spies," a gripping and innovative documentary about a group of Palestinian Jews who volunteered to return to their countries of origin in Eastern Europe in [...]

Directed by Maryna Er Gorbach, Klondike (2022) encapsulates all the harrowing emotions and diverse reactions that occur when war takes over your home. The film follows the heavily pregnant Irka [...]

Alexandra Kuenning reviews Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius's last film, a sombre and raw record of the siege of Mariupol

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.