A survey of Central and Eastern European cinema
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Sarajevo 2006/2008

When I started this blog just over a year ago, I did so with a long list of ambitions, chief among them being that I was going to keep the promise of its subtitle "a survey of Central and Eastern European cinema" by visiting the Gdynia, Plzeň, Budapest and Sarajevo Film Festivals every year and thereby end up sampling the vast majority of the [...]

12:08 East of Bucharest

Last night I reacquainted myself with Corneliu Poromboiu's delightful 12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?, 2006), a practically zero-budget Romanian comedy that scores spectacular value for money in the laughs department. I'd previously seen it last year, when it opened the Sarajevo Film Festival, screening in a gigantic open-air venue [...]