
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.

Russian director Maria Rigel’s latest film is a disappointingly slow-moving look at Armenian society that is more incomprehensible than enlightening.

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?

While promising a story of self-discovery amidst Georgia’s political turmoil, this novel instead makes Georgia feel more like a convenient backdrop.

This debut work is an exploration of girlhood, leaning into an internal, almost private narrative that speaks to a collective female experience.

Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.

The quiet and compassionate documentary Hotel Metalurg is less about losing a home than about learning, painfully, how to live without one.

Anna Dziapshipa’s 2023 collage documentary invites the viewer into her own story, examining personally what it means to be an Abkhaz–Georgian woman.