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Directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • 2022 • Ukraine

One of the most striking debuts in recent Ukrainian cinema, Pamfir is a magical realist reimagining of the gangster film imbued with folkloric vitality. When devoted family man a...

Directed by Damian Kocur • 2022 • Poland

Damian Kocur’s feature debut confirms his reputation as one of Poland’s most promising filmmakers. Talented pianist Tymek (Tymoteusz Bies) returns to his provincial hometown during his vacation from the Warsaw Academy of Music, and quickly falls back in w...

Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2019 • Romania

Romanian New Wave icon Corneliu Porumboiu heads for the Canaries in this playful, genre-bending crime thriller. Bucharest police captain Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) is caught in a trap of his own making – under investigation by his bosses for his corrupt ...

Directed by Dušan Makavejev • 1967 • Yugoslavia

This gleefully subversive, formally skittish, and surprisingly moving oddity from the inimitable Dušan Makavejev is a high point of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Centred around the doomed romance between a Hungarian switchboard operator Izabela (Eva Ras...

Directed by Igor Maslennikov • 1979 • USSR/Russia

A sparkling Soviet rendering of the beginnings of the unlikely partnership between super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes and decent-minded Doctor Watson. When John Watson rents a room at 221b Baker Street, he quickly becomes convinced that there is someth...

Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov • 2020 • Kazakhstan

A movie-obsessed ex-con and his sultry female companion are lovers on the lam in Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s droll and touching crime caper. Kermek (Azamat Nigmanov) returns from the joint to his native Kazakh village with a dream: to build a cinema on...

Directed by Michael Borodin • 2022 • Russia

Based on shocking real-life events, Michael Borodin’s feature debut is a harrowing account of the hidden world of modern slavery. Mukhabat (Zukhara Sanzysbay) is one of a group of Uzbek migrants being held against their will in the Moscow grocery store...

Directed by Nadejda Koseva • 2024 • Bulgaria

Nadejda Koseva’s sophomore feature is a portrait of man at war with nature and himself. On the banks of the Danube, an elderly loner named Yovo (Alexander Trifonov) tends to his private zoo. His reclusive life is upended when his dog is enlisted for a...

Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev • 2011 • Russia

Andrei Zvyagintsev’s third feature, nominated for over 45 awards, follows the eponymous Elena – at once the docile housewife to successful businessman Vladimir and the humble matriarch to her son’s impoverished family, living in a decrepit suburb on...

Directed by Ralitza Petrova • 2016 • Bulgaria

Ralitza Petrova’s uncompromising portrait of Bulgarian society’s spiritual decline is one of the most vital films to emerge from the Balkans in the last decade. First-time actor Irena Ivanova is impassively impressive as Gana, a social care nurse who...

Directed by Igor Maslennikov • 1979 • USSR/Russia

Super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his partner Doctor Watson return to tackle the mysterious death of an American in London in the second installment of the classic Soviet adaptation. A series of murders unfolds, each marked by a macabre clue: the ...

Directed by Agnieszka Holland • 2017 • Poland

Two of Poland’s cultural titans join forces as veteran auteur Agnieszka Holland adapts Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead into a propulsive eco-thriller. Agnieszka Mandat is magnetic as Duszejko, an animal ri...

Directed by Asif Rustamov • 2022 • Azerbaijan

Asif Rustamov’s erotic, ironic psychodrama is a breath of fresh air for Azerbaijani cinema. A struggling, one-eyed artist (Elshen Esgerov) ekes out a living carving gravestones while engaged in a passionate but provocative affair with a married woman...

Directed by Rachid Nougmanov • 1988 • USSR/Kazakhstan

Part Pulp Fiction, part Betty Blue, Rachid Nougmanov’s cult punk film portrays the attempt of an enigmatic drifter (Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi) to free his ex-girlfriend from the clutches of a morphine-peddling surgeon. Contrasting the sh...

Directed by Pavel Chukhrai • 1997 • Russia

Left widowed after the Second World War, Katya desperately tries to keep her son Sanya safe from harm. When charismatic officer Tolyan enters her life, she succumbs to his charms, despite her son’s misgivings. But can Tolyan be trusted? This parable of ...