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Timon Ostermeier analyses the new players in Central Asia's hydropower financing, taking a specific look at Rogun, the world's tallest dam.

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

Katarzyna Rybarczyk shows how the quest for green energy bears destructive consequences for the Polish forest.

Lossi 36 looks at 10 feature-length films tackling environmental issues in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

Giorgia Maurovich analyses Olga Tokarczuk's "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" as a strand of ecofeminist literature

Xandie Kuenning reviews Maradia Tsaava's 2021 film "Water Has No Borders," a documentary more about the filmmaker than its ostensible topic

Tobias Colangelo looks at the history of Vozrozhdeniye, a lost island in the Aralkum once home to the largest anthrax dump in the world

Emma Smeyers reviews Saxon Bosworth's latest wildlife documentary "Mr. Velvet Scoter," a sensitive dialogue on conservation in Georgia

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews the Serbian documentary "Flotacija," where magic coexists with the harsh reality of a destructive mining industry

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Atlantis," an exploration of what post-war Ukraine could look like, both the good and the bad