A panel titled "How Can Stories Travel" was held on October 14 at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival, in the underground cinema hall set up in the Polish capital's…
Out of the peat rises a shrivelled, mummified boy. His skin has gone amber-brown and leathery, his small limbs pulled tight as rope. The bog that drowned him has kept…
In French filmmaker Félix de Givry’s debut film, a 14-year-old boy’s failed suicide attempt evolves into a magically atmospheric coming-of-age love story, one that feels as though it was made…
A young boy’s body is found six-feet deep in a peat bog, no clothes, no signs of external interference. In the next episode of True Crime Stories, Reinis Kalviņš takes…
Where would we be without Nordic melancholia? Alongside flat-pack furniture, woolly sweaters and cinnamon buns, inner unease has become one of the North’s most recognisable exports. For years, Joachim Trier…
Martina Buchelová’s debut feature Lover, Not a Fighter feels almost like scrolling through Instagram Stories and seeing bits and pieces of other people’s existence. Pieced together from fragments of Andrej…
In Eivind Landsvik’s directorial debut Marie Ulven, better known by her pop-star alias Girl in Red, plays Maja, a once-successful musician turned substitute teacher. Her sound, more akin to the…
ELIZABETE DIDZA, Latvia
Elizabete Didža is a Latvian film critic and multimedia artist working primarily with photography and experimental film. She is currently assisting with the development of the Baltic…
The Unbearable Weight of Memory
A harrowing, tender portrait of guilt and survival, Father turns an unthinkable mistake into a study of how memory can both destroy and redeem.
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What Men Live by: With The Memory of A Useful Ghost
Nat, whose ghost is haunted by a vacuum cleaner, decides to clear the dust from her family's factory.
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Red. Blue. Orange.
Ghosts remain, sometimes by their own will, sometimes pulled by the living.
By Kaiyrkul Abdyrakhmanova
With feature debut A Useful Ghost, Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke blends social…
The Creative Union Behind Y
by Ilo Tuule Rajand, Alex Petrescu, and Kairgul Abdyrahmanova
A debut feature from director Maria Popistașu and Alexandru Baciu, the Romanian family drama Y just…