Carmen Gray - The Film Verdict

Libertate

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 13, 2023 | Festivals, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023 |

A chaotic power struggle plays out in 1989 Transylvania, in Tudor Giurgiu’s cynical, directionless drama of civic breakdown and compromise, is showing in Sarajevo International Film Festival

De Facto

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 12, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo 2023 |

Selma Doborac’s formally audacious, challenging and chilling ‘De Facto’, a doc-fiction hybrid, decontextualises war crimes testimony to plumb the power of language. In Sarajevo International Film Festival

Lost Country

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 11, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, Sarajevo 2023 |

A teen comes of age as a troubled Serbia reckons with its direction in ‘Lost Country’, Vladimir Perisic’s sombre yet astute, politically-charged drama.

Excursion

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 11, 2023 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Locarno 2023, Sarajevo, Sarajevo 2023 |

Una Gunjak’s sensitive, richly textured Bosnian coming-of-ager about a lie’s repercussions questions sexual double standards in a society of repressed fears.

Karlovy Vary: A “Russian spa town” no more?

Posted by Carmen Gray | Jul 6, 2023 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2023 |

Amid political turmoil in Europe and a push to overhaul Karlovy Vary’s identity for tourists, Russia plays a lesser festival role.

Author: Carmen Gray

Libertate

De Facto

Lost Country

Excursion

Karlovy Vary: A “Russian spa town” no more?