An ode to the unconventional: Anarcho Shorts at the 2025 goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European FilmMay 16, 2025Caterina Cambria reviews the Anarcho Shorts compilation of short films, a collection that grants the viewer a thousand different emotions.
A promising premise that fails in its execution: “The Assistant” at the 2025 goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European FilmMay 13, 2025Daniel Jarosak reviews "The Assistant", an unconvincing and self-important arthouse film attempting to critique captialism.
A change in rhetoric brings the Three Seas Initiative closer to its original purposeDecember 10, 2024Harry Forster take a deeper look at how the war in Ukraine has affected the rhetoric and goals of the Three Seas Initiative.
Journey to the edge of consciousness: “The Hourglass Sanatorium” at the 2024 Samizdat Film FestivalOctober 4, 2024The 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 [...]
Opinion: It is time to dismantle PiS’s memory politicsSeptember 13, 2024Kirsten Terrill argues that Poland must acknowledge the full spectrum of Polish history without the interference of politics
“Green Border” and the deadly EU border regimeJune 19, 2024Pyke Haans reviews Agnieszka Holland's latest film focusing on the border between Poland and Belarus on the Białowieża Forest
The cultural significance of milk bars in PolandJanuary 18, 2024Laura Puciataitė examines the cultural significance of Poland's milk bars, relating their history and how they have survived into modernity
The dark side of green energyDecember 12, 2023Katarzyna Rybarczyk shows how the quest for green energy bears destructive consequences for the Polish forest.
Literature as an ethical act: Olga Tokarczuk’s “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” and ecocriticismDecember 5, 2023Giorgia Maurovich analyses Olga Tokarczuk's "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" as a strand of ecofeminist literature
(De)Politicization of an era: Architectural heritage in Central and Eastern EuropeNovember 7, 2023Lance Bradley looks at how ideology and art are conceived through photography and architectural heritage in Central and Eastern Europe