On December 11, along with the winners in the other categories, the European Discovery Award – Prix FIPRESCI has been announced during the European Film Awards Ceremony.
European Discovery 2021…
The "Gandhi Medal", the film prize of the "CICT – International Council for Film, Television and Audio-visual Communication" (institution linked to UNESCO) has been awarded at the occasion of the…
The FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project has returned to the 37th Warsaw International Film Festival, which runs from October 8 to 17, 2021. The training workshops for young critics and film journalists…
Hive (Zgjoy, 2021), dir. Blerta Basholli
“I thought we all had a limited reservoir of tears in ourselves,” writes Javier Cercas in his most recent novel Lord of All the…
Meeting Point (Kimya, 2021), dir. Umut Evirgen
Written and directed by Umut Evirgen, Meeting Point thwarts its promise of adventure with an overreliance on blurry aesthetics (evoking the sensation…
Sisterhood Founded on Blood, Sweat & Tears: an Interview with Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzała
The Herd (2021) is a tender look at sisterhood and committed examination of the ups…
In Limbo (2021), dir. Aleksandr Khant
Discipline the punished: Aleksandr Khant delivers spellbindingly-sardonic millennial take on the getaway genre.
“I vow to become a drunk, I vow to be a…
The Hill Where the Lionesses Roar (2021), dir. Luàna Bajrami
“It will wash away your bitterness,” Qe (Flaka Latifi) tells her friend Li (Era Balaj), insisting that she takes a…
I am Fine, Thanks (2021), dir. Ernestas Jankauskas
I am Fine, Thanks: Ted Lasso’s Lithuanian female lookalike
The fans of the brilliant AppleTV+ series Ted Lasso know how often behind…
The Herd (2021), dir. Monika Kotecka, Karolina Poryzyała, Poland
A herd of their own: Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzya acquaint us with the sisterhood of a horse-vaulting team
“The vaulting…
The European Film Academy and FIPRESCI take great pleasure in congratulating the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2021 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European…
On September 26, Kirill Razlogov passed away. The Soviet and Russian film critic, culturologist, festival curator and TV presenter was also a program director of Moscow Film Festival, Doctor of…