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Review | Thus Spoke the Wind — an Armenian drama that favours art over substance
Russian director Maria Rigel’s latest film is a disappointingly slow-moving look at Armenian society that is more incomprehensible than enlightening.
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When the night glows, the Circassian New Year begins
The Circassian New Year, once an important occasion marking the beginning of spring, has resurfaced — but does it have a place in today’s society?
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Review | A Dog in Georgia — a journey that never finds its way
While promising a story of self-discovery amidst Georgia’s political turmoil, this novel instead makes Georgia feel more like a convenient backdrop.
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Review | Persephone (Where the Light Forgets Me) — the echoing architecture of girlhood
This debut work is an exploration of girlhood, leaning into an internal, almost private narrative that speaks to a collective female experience.
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Review | The Cage is Looking for a Bird — a Chechen tale of women’s agency
Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.
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Review | Hotel Metalurg — illustrating the loss that never fades
The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.
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Review | Self-Portrait Along the Borderline — exploring identity and belonging amidst conflict
Anna Dziapshipa’s 2023 collage documentary invites the viewer into her own story, examining personally what it means to be an Abkhaz–Georgian woman.
