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Marianna Jaśniak reviews "Nijolė", a minimalist, impressionist narrative on the Lithuanian-Colombian artist Nijolė and her politician son.

Marta De Lauri reviews "I'm an Old Communist Hag", a bittersweet reflection on memory, ideology, and the quiet dignity of ordinary lives. 

Daniel Jarosak reviews "The Assistant", an unconvincing and self-important arthouse film attempting to critique captialism.

Southeastern Europe editor Mia Uremovic reviews "Windless", a beautifully slow Bulgarian film about facing the past

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

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

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 [...]