Reviews

Daniel Jarosak reviews "A Postcard from Rome", an emotional Latvian film looking at the effects of dementia on a loving relationship.

Maja Soomägi reviews Catriona Kelly's "Russian Food Since 1800", an intro to food culture in the Russian empire and Soviet Union.

Francesco Damiano Desantis reviews the documentary film "Another Summer — Stories of Exile from Afghanistan and Ukraine”

The team behind Lossi 36 shares with you their favourite recommendations of books, podcasts, and movies covering all of Lossi's regions.

Aysel Akhundova reviews Orkhan Aghazade's "The Return of the Projectionist", an ode to cinema set in Azerbaijan's Talysh region

Kasia Kostraba reviews Oksana Karpovych's "Intercepted" as part of Lossi 36's coverage of the 2024 Samizdat Film Festival

Often considered one of the best films produced in Czechoslovakia, The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969) is an impeccable example of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Darkly surreal, it portrays how [...]

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) is an oneiric and elusive film, where the sacred and the profane flow interchangeably. Director Wojciech Jerzy Has, drawing on the legacy of Bruno Schulz’s [...]

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews Nutsa Gogoberidze's "Uzhmuri" as part of Lossi 36's coverage of the 2024 Samizdat Film Festival

Polina Gundarina reviews "A Picture to Remember" as part of Lossi 36's coverage of the 2024 Samizdat Film Festival