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Interview with Maja Novaković, director of At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

Mia Breuer Thursday, 9 January 2025.

At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking (2024) directed by Maja Novaković, follows the isolated life of an elderly man in the cutting landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Each movement, set against the boundless line of the snowy horizon, is transformed into a series of dreamlike symbols. Feelings of loneliness and seclusion somehow sit alongside intimacy and peaceful imagination,...

Queendom: Queer Keaton

Pauline Ciraci Thursday, 5 December 2024.

High heels on snow. Across a white horizon, a frail figure, all corset and ruff, moves forward. The ice crunches beneath her feet. In a single shot, Agniia Galdanova captures the heart of her film: Jenna Marvin's poetry of contrasts and the Russian queer artist’s struggle to live in a hostile environment.

No Other Land: Comradery under Genocide

Botagoz Koilybayeva Thursday, 5 December 2024.

What happens to a people’s spirit when they are displaced and uprooted from their land over and over again? Their children grow up to become activists. This is the premise of No Other Land, a documentary about the resistance and resilience of the inhabitants of Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian hamlets in the occupied West Bank. The official reason for demolishing the region was to make...

Three Young Armenian Voices: Echoes of Nagorno-Karabakh

Carolina Schmidt Thursday, 5 December 2024.

The 2024 Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival showcased three debut films by young Armenian filmmakers, each offering a poignant exploration of the human toll of the violence, ethnic cleansing, and mass displacement caused by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Set against the backdrop of the 2020 Second Karabakh War and the brutal 2023 attacks by Azerbaijan, these films...

My Sweet Land: Legacy of bees and war

Pauline Ciraci Thursday, 5 December 2024.

Land for as far as the eyes can see. From the window of the car carrying Vrej and his family, it’s hard to identify borders. And yet, for the breakaway republic of Artsakh, repeatedly under attack from Azerbaijan, it’s what matters most. With My Sweet Land, Sareen Hairabedian documents war and exile through the keen eyes of a child.

Bekő András

„Most először olyan korban élünk, amikor már nincs szükség történetmesélésre.” Neptun vihara: mit tanulhatunk egy horvát sziget történetéből?

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