The rise, fall, and rebirth of Balkan Beats
A Croatian factory faces the reality of its socialist dream
A prison without walls: Yakut drama Nuuccha traces the lives of families forced to care for Siberia’s exiles
Merging reality and fiction, Stop-Zemlia is an honest account of adolescent turbulence in Ukraine
Unclenching the Fists: a young North Ossetian woman’s odyssey to freedom
Severed from home, Serbian photographer Mirjana Vrbaški searches again for the familiar
Other People: the audacious hip-hop musical capturing modern Poland
Kicking it with Killages: meet Georgia’s laid-back, genre-bending rap group
Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu is an unsettling, timely pandemic delirium
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar: in Kosovo, a teenage trio fight for freedom
Ifi Ude: the Polish pop balladeer blending Slavic and Nigerian folk traditions
Interweaving fact and fiction, an experimental film uses AI to reimagine Abkhazia’s past
A documentary sheds lights on the Uzbek human rights activist who died serving life imprisonment in Kyrgyzstan
Set in the Russian Far North, Life of Ivanna is an unflinching portrait of resilience in the face of climate change
In Reconciliation, a Balkan family is caught between preserving tradition and embracing forgiveness
Latvian singer Waterflower is serving pure, plant-based pop
Kedr Livanskiy on freeing her true voice — and falling for Lord of the Rings
‘The truth doesn’t wait’: System of a Down’s Serj Tankian on music, activism, and the Armenian Genocide
One Kazakh artist is ripping up plastics — and the legacy of Soviet rule
‘Instinct for catastrophe’: French writer Jakuta Alikavazovic on the ghosts of the Yugoslav war
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