Review: Antigone: In the Language of Kings
The resinous scent of burning copal drifts through the arena. A grief-filled keen pierces the air. And a specter of death glides through a battlefield, sweeping corpses into black billows.
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Spotlight on Ryan Radusinovic, Founder of Balkan Comedy Night
35 years ago, in the midst of the breakup of Yugoslavia, it would have been practically impossible to imagine a North American comedy club jam-packed with people tied to different Balkan countries celebrating their cultural differences and similarities through laughter.
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Review: “Green Corridors”
What if the way out of a war-torn country is just as grim as staying?
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In Memoriam: Remembering visionary filmmaker Vlatko Gilić
A master filmmaker’s legacy lives on.
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Review: Night is More Abstract by Miklavž Komelj
Mouse bones, owl pellets, and small silver pails appear amidst the dregs of communism, karma, and resurrections as Komelj’s poems play with size and scale from the minute to the epic.
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Dispatch from the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival
Review By Amanda L. Andrei Come to Craiova at the start of the summer, and you’ll find this southwestern city in Romania bursting with drama. Since 1994, this cozy Belle Époque city in Romania has hosted the International Shakespeare Festival, filling the stages, streets, and sprawling Romanescu Park with performances and art inspired by the […]
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It All Starts Here… Well, Kind Of
“There was no illusion of a straight path or guaranteed success, just honest conversations about persistence, adaptability, and finding your way through uncertainty.”
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Review: Documentary Film, Meant to Be
Pogány Induló is only twenty, but he already looks worn down. In Hungary, he is famous, with a young audience that echoes his words back to him. It looks like the dream: fame, success, a launched career. Instead, success reached him before he knew what to do with it–and with it, the cost of success.
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Review: Breadcrumbs by Kasia Babis
“One day you will learn respect for the fatherland, respect for bread. I will make you learn.” –Kasia Babis in Breadcrumbs. By Lauren Halvonik.
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