The Cost of Reinvention in Grzegorz Królikiewicz's The Dancing Hawk

The Polish filmmaker transforms social mobility into a portrait of identity fracture and spiritual erosion.

May 22 • Marta Djordjevic

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The Fragile Bonds of Takashi Miike’s Agitator

In Miike’s sprawling yakuza epic, violence sustains the machinery while human attachment becomes the one thing the system cannot absorb.

May 7 • Marta Djordjevic

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April 2026

Physical Media Treasures: Shaped Under Pressure

Three films exploring how identity shifts under pressure, shaped by expectation, perception, and performance.

Apr 4 • Marta Djordjevic

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March 2026

Rituals of the Absurd: Kin-dza-dza!

How Georgiy Daneliya’s sci-fi satire turns absurdity into habit, and habit into survival

Mar 20 • Marta Djordjevic

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February 2026

No One Wins This Game

Tracing the illusion of freedom from Radiance’s Wicked Games set through the wider cinema of Robert Hossein.

Feb 20 • Marta Djordjevic

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January 2026

Malpertuis by Harry Kümel (1971) | Episode 04

A gothic labyrinth of illusion and myth, hidden within Harry Kümel’s Malpertuis.

Jan 23 • Marta Djordjevic

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December 2025

Physical Media Treasures: Small Mercies, Shared Days

Four films about people under pressure and the acts of care, imagination, and friendship that help them get through the day.

Dec 22, 2025 • Marta Djordjevic

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November 2025

The Things You Kill and the Cinema of Unreliable Selves

Alireza Khatami’s newest feature blurs memory, identity, and the fictions we build to survive them.

Nov 28, 2025 • Marta Djordjevic

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Physical Media Treasures: The Fall Haul

Through and Through, The Cat, Los Golfos, The Betrayal, & Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet.

Nov 11, 2025 • Marta Djordjevic

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VIFF Dispatch #2: When the Edges Blur

No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident, Nouvelle Vague, What Does That Nature Say to You, and Blue Heron

Nov 4, 2025 • Marta Djordjevic

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October 2025

VIFF Dispatch #1: Heartbeats and Memories

Sentimental Value, Resurrection, Left-Handed Girl, Akashi, Kontinental ‘25, and A Useful Ghost

Oct 17, 2025 • Marta Djordjevic

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September 2025

Paul Vecchiali's Theater of Feeling

How Paul Vecchiali built his own grammar of care, fusing theatrical intimacy with radical tenderness.

Sep 12, 2025 • Marta Djordjevic

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