Eastern Blooms in Karlovy Vary

Ask any tourist what sights struck them in Prague and they’ll more often than not regale you with their bemusement over the Žižkov Television Tower, a bizarre communist-era needle of high-tech architecture plun...
IndieLisboa 2017

IndieLisboa: Invisible Cities

Joseph Roth wrote in 1933 that rising nationalism had temporarily defeated Jewish writers in Germany, but not before they’d given its literature something great: the theme of the city. He’s one of a number of l...
DOC Leipzig

DOK Leipzig

The rise of populist parties in Europe, Brexit, and Trump: all were mentioned by DOK Leipzig festival director Leena Pasanen in her opening speech as phenomena of a world suddenly more polarised and confrontati...
Midnight Sun film festival review

Midnight Sun Film Festival

Finland’s Midnight Sun has in its three decades become known among cinema aficionados as one of the world’s most legendary and unique film festivals. Its reputation as something of a rarity is enhanced by the f...