July Rain is a New Wave-esque Soviet classic about alienation and love | Film of the week
The unknown Parajanov: watch the auteur’s triptych of short films | Film of the week
Set in sunlit Georgia, Comets is a quiet film about enduring love | Film of the week
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania is a groundbreaking diaristic documentary on homecoming | Film of the Week
Aliona van der Horst explores the life and death of poet Boris Ryzhy | Film of the week
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel is an Estonian sci-fi mystery set among snowy vistas | Film of the Week
Hilarious and heartfelt, Cosy Dens is a warm Christmas film from Czech Republic | Film of the Week
12:08 East of Bucharest conjures the Ghosts of Christmas and Revolution Past | Film of the week
Favourites of the Moon is a vertiginous comedy on love and crime in 1980s Paris | Film of the Week
Satirical Yugoslavian romance Man Is Not a Bird is a hypnotic film about desire | Film of the week
Mesmerisingly minimalist, Beshkempir is a relatable coming-of-age story from Central Asia | Film of the Week
Witty and poignant, Paweł Pawlikowski’s From Moscow to Pietushki is an ode to reading and drinking | Film of the Week
Subversive and surrealist, Daisies is the feminist black comedy for our times | Film of the Week
History of Civilisation is a meditative short film on the pains of leaving things behind | Film of the Week
Dead Souls’ Vacation: an intimate look at mental health and contemporary life in Georgia | Film of the Week
Exhilarating experimental film Microcassette is set atop a fantasy island garbage heap | Film of the Week
80 years after being seized by the Nazis, avant-garde masterpiece Europa is getting its world premiere | Film of the Week
The Art of Loving: the larger-than-life story of the woman who revolutionised sexuality in communist Poland | Film of the Week
