There Were No Gods Left

Baltic Cinema

Holy Destructors

A Baltic film festival would be incomplete without a documentary in the poetic tradition of the Baltic countries.

Baltic Cinema

Renovation

My favourite film from the section.

Baltic Cinema

Borderline

Unless you’re from Eastern Europe, there is a good chance you don’t know that Lithuania shares a border with Russia on the east – as do more Eastern European countries than would like to – and also on the west. It’s a small enclave of Russia called the Kaliningrad

Baltic Cinema

Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart

The difference between a Barbie doll and a 30-something is that nothing bad happens to the toy when you throw it to the ground.

Baltic Cinema

Becoming

With such a descriptive title, it’s no surprise that Zhannat Alshanova’s feature directorial debut is a coming-of-age story. The action takes place in Kazakhstan during the post-Soviet era. Seventeen-year-old Mila (Tamiris Zhangazinova) is a talented swimmer and a stereotypically ornery teenage daughter. Her mother (Assel Kaliyeva) isn’t

Baltic Cinema

Red Code Blue

Sometimes justice needs extraordinary means.

Baltic Cinema

New Money

Two normal people wake up with inordinate wealth.

Baltic Cinema

Fränk

Fränk is a dark film where children can overdose, young boys can kill each other, and where disabled men relentlessly cry from the pure evil inflicted upon them.

Baltic Cinema

Hunger Strike Breakfast

A cinéma vérité approach and adds a dose of absurdism to the crucial Lithuanian historical events of January 1991.

Baltic Cinema

Therapy

Some activities are intrinsically more cinematic than others. Boxing, for example, with its crunched yet still kinetic space and big lights, is naturally more cinematic than the much less physically dramatic chess. Group therapy is difficult to place on this spectrum of anti-cinematic activities on one hand and inherently cinematic

Baltic Cinema

The Activist

It can be tender. It can be classically dramatic. It can be sexy. And it can be thrilling.

Baltic Cinema

Happiness is Living in our Land

Appropriately messy and entertaining doc about Estonian punk band...

Fritz on Fridays

Fritz on Fridays: The Lost Films of Fritz Lang

Like many prolific filmmakers active in the first half of the 20th century, Fritz Lang’s filmography did not make it to the present in its entirety.

Palestinian Cinema

Interview: Michael Maria, Boston Palestine Film Festival Director of Programming

"There is still this hope for moving beyond and for Palestinian liberation."

Korean Cinema

Good News

Good News’ black comedy cuts with both edges of its katana.

Chinese Cinema(s)

Yi Yi

It’s an impossible task to summarize human life in three hours. And that’s why Yi Yi is often considered one of the greatest films ever made: because Edward Yang tests the impossible.

The Rapidian

The Birds

Any viewing of “The Birds” hellbent on making sense of why the animals attack is bound to end in disappointment.

Dmytro Hreshko

Divia

Fits in within the Ukrainian tradition of poetic filmmaking...

Ukrainian Cinema

Interview with Divia Director Dmytro Hreshko

The ghost of nature in Ukraine

Palestinian Cinema

Boston Palestine Film Festival 2025 Interview: Sepideh Farsi

The Boston Palestine Film Festival runs with a mix of in-person and online availability from October 17 through October 26. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is one of the

Palestinian Cinema

Happy Holidays

Part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival

Baltic Cinema

Radical Filmmaking & Killing Penises: An Interview with Miguel Llansó on Infinite Summer

"I first wanted to kill the penis."

Palestinian Cinema

Passing Dreams

Palestinian cinema is a cinema of movement.

Palestinian Cinema

Thank You For Banking With Us

Part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival 2025

In Review Online

The Threesome

What’s the worst thing that can come from a threesome?