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First-time filmmaker Darya Zhuk has managed something extraordinary: making a smart and funny youth movie in and about Belarus. She tells The Calvert Journal how she did it
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László Nemes is back to save cinema with his dreamlike follow-up to Son of Saul -
Dark satire Clergy is fuelling public pressure on the Catholic Church in Poland -
Director Vitaly Manksy on Russia’s new film festival laws -
Inside Armenia’s Soviet cinemas and the fight to save the country’s film heritage -
How the Arctic republic of Yakutia forged its own indigenous film industry -
Ioana Uricaru’s bitter immigration drama is brutally honest and fit for our time -
Paweł Pawlikowski spins a gorgeous, doomed love story in his award-winning new film -
The Russian-Chinese film collaborations trying to hit the big time -
Radu Jude’s controversial new film explores the dark truths of Romanian history -
What the classic films of István Szabó tell us about power and corruption today -
Is Kirill Serebrennikov’s rock biopic as radical as it seems? -
A tribute to the dazzling, controversial genius of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema -
Sergei Loznitsa exposes the absurdity of the Donbass conflict in his new film -
Moscow’s groundbreaking Soviet 360 finally gets a makeover -
Why did Valeska Grisebach set her modern western in Bulgaria? -
The master of the Polish Poster School on his dark and lurid vision of cinema -
Alexei German Jr brings Russia’s favourite downtrodden literary hero to the screen -
Meet the women at the forefront of new Georgian cinema -
A journey down the red carpet, from War and Peace to Zvyagintsev -
The Berlinale-winning Romanian film that has provoked international outrage -
An essay on the term that caught the world’s attention -
The New East cinema you need to see this year -
Russia’s Ministry of Culture stages its own censorship farce -
Our pick of the best movies, literature and music this year