Georgian filmmaker Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze’s feature-film debut, Otar’s Death (2021) is an irony-rich social and psychological drama. It’s a tale of two seemingly disparate families though thanks to the corroded social order,…
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Sometimes the largest of human stories can be contained in the smallest (of space, of moments, etc). It’s what Tea Lukac’s fascinatingly stripped-down yet deeply intimate and soothing documentary, Roots (Koreni, 2021)…
Lara (2019) is a sombre tale of unrealised dreams and ambitions, of a mother and son in conflict with themselves and with each other and of a society that tries to intervene…
“But they are not weirdos. She just said there are some rules and I have to follow them because that’s how they do it. Got it?”: explains Misha, to her boyfriend, over…
American writer-director Tim Mielants premiered his first feature film, “Patrick” at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Mielants, so far known for his work on tv shows like “Legion” and “Peaky…
Award-winning Kosovar writer-director Lendita Zeqiraj’s debut feature “Aga’s House” is about a boy growing up in a house full of women. Playful, funny and ultimately quietly heartbreaking, Zeiraaj’s departure from short films…