Tag: 2017
All blog posts from 2017
Masha and the Bear – December 9th
MASHA AND THE BEAR season 1 RUSSIA 2009-2017 Children’s Animation Masha is an energetic three-year-old who lives in an old train station in the forest. Precocious, silly, and friendly with…
Day Watch – November 12th
DAYWATCH RUSSIA 2007 Fantasy 120min Director: Timur Bekmambetov Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Jeanna Friske The second instalment in the Russian fantasy trilogy, 1st part, Nightwatch, screened in 2016 at Eurawstories. Anton (Konstantin…
Toni Erdman – October 1st
TONI ERDMAN GERMANY/ROMANIA 2016 Comedy 2’42min Director: Maren Ade Cast: Sandra Huller, Peter Simonischek Awards: Nominated as Best Foreign Film 2016 at Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Cannes, with 43…
MIFF 2017
For three weeks in August the Melbourne cinemas open their doors to films from all over the world at Melbourne International Film Festival. See our pick of Storie From The Other Europe. LOVELESS…
PARTISAN on the 3rd of September
PARTISAN AUSTRALIA 2015 Drama 94 min Director: Ariel Kleiman Cast: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel Awards: Sundance 2015 (Grand Jury Prize Nomination), 8 AACTA Nominations Alexander is like any other…
The comforts of female friendship
In Bloom is not the first nor the last story about female friendship in modern patriarchal cultures (Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels come to mind), but our next EuRaw Stories film…
In Bloom Screening on July the 2nd
IN BLOOM Georgia 2014 Drama 102 min Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross Cast: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria Awards: 2014 Academy Awards selection (Best Foreign Language Film) & Winner of…
What Pussy Riot did next…and why we should care
Art activism is not something that Pussy Riot invented a few years ago. But they certainly took it to new levels. If you think that the young Russian women were…
Russians still know how to revolt
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Russians still know how to do rebellion. Pussy Riot, a feminist art collective that came to existence in 2011, aimed for nothing less…