Reviews

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 [...]

Unidentified (Neidentificat, 2020) is a sparse mystery situated around the character study of a corrupt detective. While there is some merit to its wry examination of police corruption and the [...]

Tbilisi International Film Festival held a special screening of the Soviet-Georgian classic Falling Leaves by Otar Iosseliani, showing a marvellously restored version of this cinema classic.

Maja Soomägi dives deeper into the integration of the Azerbaijani ethnic minority in Georgia in her review of the short film "Hey, Gunesh!"

Gabrielė Liepa examines the legacy of Soviet-era artists who collaborated with the regime in their review of "The Poet"

Alexandra Kuenning reviews "The Northeast Winds," a moving and diverting examination of Stalinist nostalgia in Georgia.

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

Katherine Leung reviews A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Elizabeth White.

"This book is a very high-level look at the culture and economics of Russia, Eastern Europe, and China", writes Katherine Leung.