The latest instalment of Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival’s animations programme provides a sweeping overview of the astonishing creativity and innovation of Czech animation in the 20th Century, spotlighting how it acts as a prism of shifting social, political, and cultural landscapes...

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This lineup brings together three experimental films from the South Caucasus, all by women filmmakers. The longest is Tekla Islanishvili’s recent documentary A State in a State, tracing the fragmented railway infrastructure across Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in a slow yet vivid homage to a region torn by ethnic hatred, corruption and the convulsions of Russian colonialism…

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A 1960s Kyrgyz gem White Mountains, preceded by Where Russia Ends, a poignant found footage short from Ukraine.

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From Artsakh to Ukraine, Bosnia to Palestine, this collection of shorts traces the fractures of home, memory, and language across landscapes marked by displacement, military occupation, and genocidal violence.…

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War Songs is a documentary musical which tells the story of war and pacifism through songs and melodies recorded in Mariupol from the end of 20th century to the beginning of 2022, when the city was erased and captured by Russia.

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Following last year’s Audience Award for Alex Milic’s Consul of Nowhereland (Montenegro), this year’s competition brings 14 new titles — from Poland and Iran to Uzbekistan and Greece. Once again, you — our audience — will vote for the winner. Our first block moves between sharp, playful storytelling and intimate testimonies, bridging the gap between the personal and the political…

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More than thirty years after their original release, this is the first Scottish screening of two of Vladimir Tyulkin’s comedic and eccentric Soviet-era Kazakh documentaries where he blends absurdity, pathos, and satire in bizarre, unforgettable portraits…

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Following last year’s Audience Award for Alex Milic’s Consul of Nowhereland (Montenegro), this year’s competition brings 14 new titles — from Poland and Iran to Uzbekistan and Greece. Once again, you — our audience — will vote for the winner…

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Mariia Ponomarova’s debut feature length documentary, Nice Ladies was originally conceived as a portrait of women over 50 defying ageism, sexism, and societal expectations. The film transformed during production in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine…

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A landmark of 2000s Romanian cinema, this dark comedy of errors follows a listless teen Ovidiu and his slacker friends…

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Presented by Borscht Film Club, Solaris Mon Amour is a hypnotic found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s Solaris. Paired with Grandmamauntsistercat, an archival essay by Zuza Banasińska, it explores memory, grief, and the emotional residue of ideology…

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Andrzej Wajda’s highly stylised adaptation of an iconic novel depicts the tragedy of a generation lost to the conflicts of their time…

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In this striking adaptation of the German medieval fairy tale, master Czech animator Jiří Barta offers a nightmarish allegory about human greed and folly, told through the story of the corrupt citizens of an unknown medieval town plagued by rats. When the Pied Piper arrives to banish these vermin, the townsfolk’s avarice leads them to get more than what they bargained for…

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The life of teenage Rimantas revolves around rugby, music, and small black-market hustles — until his crush on Monika brings books into it…

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A classic of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Jiří Menzel’s directorial debut presents an absurd, comedic depiction of youth under occupation…

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