Directed by Olmo Omerzu • 2018 • Czechia

Czech-Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu burnished his reputation as one of Central Europe’s leading lights with this seasonal tale of misadventure and self-discovery. Shaven-headed, boastful Marek (Tomáš Mrvík) and his doleful younger companion Heduš (Jan Fr...

Directed by Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze • 2022 • Georgia

One of the breakout hits of recent Georgian cinema, A Room of My Own is a quietly revolutionary take on female friendship and the passage to self-emancipation. Co-writer Taki Mumladze stars as Tina, a shy young divorcee with a troubled past who f...

Directed by Emanuel Pârvu • 2021 • Romania

The sophomore directorial effort from renowned Romanian actor Emanuel Pârvu, Mikado is a taut family drama that recalls the high points of the country’s celebrated New Wave cinema. While visiting her boyfriend at a local oncology ward, teenager Magda (A...

Directed by Aysulu Onaran • 2022 • Kazakhstan

A coming-of-age drama that doubles as a parable of sexual liberation, Balaban shines a light on the margins of Kazakh society. Aysulu Onaran’s debut feature is inspired by a real-life scandal: in 2006, 160 Kazakh children were infected with HIV follo...

Directed by Dušan Milić • 2022 • Serbia

Dušan Milić’s psychological horror wrings tension out of the uneasy truce in post-war Kosovo. In a remote and dwindling Serbian community, safeguarded by KFOR peacekeepers, bereaved grandfather Milutin (veteran Yugoslav actor Slavko Štimac) and his family ...

Directed by Dovilė Šarutytė • 2021 • Lithuania

Intensely personal and sincerely relatable, Feature Film About Life announces writer-director Šarutytė as a major new figure in Baltic film. Protagonist Dovilė's life is shaken by her father’s death. But there is no time to mourn, as she must urgent...

Directed by Dāvis Sīmanis • 2021 • Latvia

Europe in 1913. The world stands on the brink of a cataclysmic transformation. As the madness builds, humble Latvian doorman Peter (or is it Hans?) finds himself wandering through a continent riven with apocalyptic schemes and bizarre characters. Revolut...

Directed by Róbert Koltai • 1993 • Hungary

A verifiable cult classic in Hungary, Róbert Koltai’s We Never Die combines bittersweet nostalgia with lively humour and playful dialogue. Set in the socialist 1960s, the film concerns an introverted teenager whose life is turned upside down by a few da...

Directed by Dito Tsintsadze • 2001 • Germany/Georgia

Dito Tsintsadze’s anarchic hitmen caper offers a delirious account of life on the fringes of the diaspora. Unfolding in the sedate German city of Mannheim, Lost Killers sees a gang of illegal immigrants go to ludicrous lengths in a frantic bid...

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Directed by Eldar Shengelaia • 2017 • Georgia

Shengelaia’s first film for 21 years is a late-career return to form that picks up the threads of his earlier satires and reconfigures them for the modern day. Minister for Refugee Evictions Giorgi Mchedlishvili (N...

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Directed by Vytautas Mikalauskas • 1957 • USSR/Lithuania

The first feature film produced solely by Lithuanian artists, Blue Horizon is a charming, affecting seaside tale. Conceived as a children’s film but with more than enough wit and intelligence to engage a...

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Directed by Revaz Chkheidze • 1969 • USSR/Georgia

It is the summer of 1941, and a group of idealistic Georgian students are graduating. Their hopes for the future, however, are scuppered by the impending war. Dreams are swapped for soldiers’ overcoats as they ...

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Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2010 • Romania

After bringing international acclaim to the Romanian New Wave with The Death of Mr Lăzărescu, Cristi Puiu returned with this stunning and enigmatic portrait of urban unease and masculinity in crisis. The director himsel...

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Directed by Dragomir Sholev • 2021 • Bulgaria

When the manager of a campsite on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast discovers yet another dolphin corpse washed up on the shoreline, he decides that enough is enough. Based on real events, Dragomir Sholev’s absurdist envi...

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Directed by Borys Ivchenko • 1972 • USSR/Ukraine

Borys Ivchenko’s fittingly surreal adaptation of an 1832 short story by Mykola Hohol, otherwise known as Nikolai Gogol, stars the irrepressible Ivan Mykolaichuk as a Zaporizhian Cossack and is full to bursting w...

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Directed by Vitaliy Melnikov • 1970 • USSR/Russia

A tender family drama about the close but pained relationship between a mother and her adolescent son. Divorcee Zinaida has for years been singlehandedly raising Boris, an intelligent but highly selfish young m...

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Directed by Anatoly Vasiliev • 1992 • Russia

Produced for newly independent Sakha television in the early nineties, Summer House is a pioneering document of a film culture in the making. The directorial debut of actor Anatoly Vasiliev, who also stars, the film...

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Directed by Miodrag Popović • 1968 • Yugoslavia

Renowned painter turned filmmaker Miodrag Popović made his indelible contribution to the Yugoslav Black Wave with this harsh but humanist take on the psychic scars of war. Two brothers, Isidor (Jovan Janićijević-...

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Directed by Ali Khamraev • 1980 • USSR/Uzbekistan

Three women’s lives intersect in a small town in Uzbekistan following the war. The first is an old woman trapped in a forced marriage; the second is a schoolteacher intent on imposing progress on the remote reg...