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Georgie Archer reviews "Wow, a talking fish!" the 1983 Soviet cartoon directed and animated by Robert Sahakyants and screened at the Samizdat film festival 2026.

Georgie Archer reviews "Comrade policeman", Assel Aushakimova’s 2021 satirical short film, screened at the Samizdat film festival 2026.

Mathieu Lemoine reviews "Love Is Not an Orange" and speaks with director Otilia Babara about the emotional scars of a generation growing up apart.

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 [...]

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

Fin Logie reviews "House on the Volcano," a gem of Soviet Armenian film accompanied in this Glasgow screening by a live score

Marija Ivanovic reviews "Safe Place," Juraj Lerotić's debut feature film based on his own family's experience with suicide

Jakub Crcha reviews "Colors of Tobi," a documentary tackling issues of identity and acceptance in contemporary Hungary