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The Fate of Life Under the Grey Sky
With a stripped-back aesthetic, Mara Tamkovich’s debut Under the Grey Sky carefully surveys the cost of practicing independent journalism in modern-day Belarus.
Mother Vera. Breaking the Habit
Mother Vera displays its photography origins with stark yet visually striking black-and-white photography, depicting the life of a nun in remote Belarus.
Berlinale Shorts 2024: The Detritus of Modernity
This year’s Berlinale Shorts reveals an obsession with the ongoing crises of modernity, while revealing biases about the types of stories allowed to be told.
goEast Film Festival Day Two: Crossing Borders
A quick jaunt to Mainz starts a day filled with characters crossing borders, looking for common threads that unite humanity.
The Boring Travails of Disco Boy
Disco Boy remakes Claire Denis for a self-indulgent, ponderous slog through the Nigerian delta with the completely wrong cast.
Cottbus Film Festival Day One: A Continent in Collapse
Day one of the Cottbus Film Festival expertly shows the major fault-lines running through the seams of Eastern European society.