2025
What is Eastern European film? With goEast festival director Heleen Gerritsen (Klassiki Podcast)
Inside the crisis in Belarus with director Mara Tamkovich (Klassiki Podcast)
The long, strange trips of Wojciech Jerzy Has (Klassiki Podcast)
Pressburger: the Hungarian heart of British film (Klassiki Podcast)
In the studio with animation legends the Quay Brothers (Klassiki Podcast)
2024
Shooting through tragedy: Shoghakat Vardanyan on her award-winning 1489 (Klassiki Podcast)
Ivan the Terrible today, with Joan Neuberger (Klassiki Podcast)
The lonely voice of Aleksandr Sokurov, with Ian Christie (Klassiki Podcast)
“Take advantage or disappear”: Radu Jude on TikTok and the future of filmmaking (Klassiki Podcast)
Under the Volcano: Damian Kocur reimagines the Ukraine war drama (Klassiki Podcast)
Dea Kulumbegashvili and Petar Valchanov at the London Film Festival 2024 (Klassiki Podcast)
The quest for initiation: Ilya Povolotsky on his hypnotic Russian odyssey Grace (Klassiki Journal)
Prefab people: cinema of the tower block with Owen Hatherley (Klassiki Podcast)
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Inside Sandro Koberidze’s modern-day Georgian fairy tale (Klassiki Journal)
Żuławski, Parajanov, and me: adventures in Eastern Europe with Dan Bird (Klassiki Podcast)
Michael Borodin uncovers Russia’s heart of darkness in slavery drama Convenience Store (Klassiki Journal)
Behind the scenes of the Romanian New Wave with Ada Solomon (Klassiki Podcast)
From Toronto to Ararat: Atom Egoyan on his career in the Armenian diaspora (Klassiki Podcast)
La Palisiada: Philip Sotnychenko gets to the grim heart of Ukraine’s post-Soviet trauma (Klassiki Journal)
Ian Christie on Eccentrism, the forgotten mavericks of the Soviet avant-garde (Klassiki Podcast)
Looking for Venera: Kosovo’s Norika Sefa on patriarchy and the energy of adolescence (Klassiki Journal)
Lithuania’s Austėja Urbaitė on her enigmatic adoption drama Remember to Blink (Klassiki Journal)
Bread and Salt: Damian Kocur’s portrait of small-town Poland at war with itself (Klassiki Journal)
2023
“A film that watches you”: Hungary’s Ádám Császi on the politics of Roma representation (Klassiki Journal)
Ukraine’s Freefilmers on anti-capitalism, resistance, and “decolonial cinema” (Klassiki Journal)
“Our own national tragedy”: Andrei Kutsila on the crisis for independent Belarusian film (Klassiki Journal)
“Moments of paradise”: Sergei Dvortsevoy’s stories from the post-Soviet fringe (Klassiki Journal)
Kyrgyzstan’s Aktan Arym Kubat confronts home truths in This Is What I Remember (Klassiki Journal)
2022
“Still the second sex”: A Room of My Own and female intimacy in today’s Georgia (Klassiki Journal)
Laila Pakalniņa on the making of Dawn, her fever dream of Soviet film history (Klassiki Journal)
2021
Sergei Livnev on the wild 90s and returning to directing after 25 years (Klassiki Journal)
“Antonioni told me to sleep less”: Uzbek maestro Ali Khamraev on his unlikely career (Klassiki Journal)
2020
Welcome to Chechnya: filming the battle to save LGBTQ Russians from an ‘anti-gay purge’ (The Calvert Journal)
2018
Sunset: László Nemes is back to save cinema with his dreamlike follow-up to Son of Saul (The Calvert Journal)
The wild east: why did Valeska Grisebach set her modern western in Bulgaria? (The Calvert Journal)
2017
Zvyagintsev returns: Russia’s foremost director on his new film Loveless, critics and creativity (The Calvert Journal)
Ana, mon amour: Călin Peter Netzer on love, loss and the future of Romanian cinema (The Calvert Journal)
2015
Chain reaction: meet Radu Jude, the first Romanian director to tackle Roma slavery onscreen (The Calvert Journal)