Blurring the borders between the personal and the collective, Ana Dumitrescu’s 2017 documentary film, Licu, a Romanian Story, delivers an intimate portrait of a 92-year-old man, […]
Márta Mészáros, one of the most acclaimed female directors in Hungarian cinema, intertwines personal and cultural memory in her latest film (to date), Aurora Borealis: Northern […]
Becoming Woman in One`s Heimat. Performance of Gender and Age in Bettina Oberli`s Late Bloomers and Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević`s Have You Seen This Woman? In […]
When taking into consideration the production of European films about ageing in the twenty-first century, one of the potential avenues for exploration is the engagement of […]
Ghosts of Futures Past: Revising The Eternal Daughter Preparing for my November conference at the Cornelia Goethe Center in Frankfurt was a perfect opportunity to revisit […]
I’m an Old Communist Hag (Sunt o babă comunistă, Stere Gulea, 2013) is based on Dan Lungu’s widely popular and internationally recognized Romanian novel of the […]
“The fact of existence is in itself euphoric” – says Éva Fahidi, a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor in Réka Szabó’s 2019 multi-award-winning documentary film, The Euphoria of […]