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​​Savina Petkova


172 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 27/05/2025.

Review: The Undergrowth

Review: The Undergrowth

BERLINALE 2024: Canarian director Macu Machín’s debut feature is an enigmatic documentation of familial bonds and their contradictions  

16/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Review: Well Ordered Nature

Review: Well Ordered Nature

BERLINALE 2024: Eva C Heldmann returns with an essay film about 18th-century botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien  

16/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Short films from Russia, India, Croatia and Sweden win at the 17th edition of Kustendorf

Short films from Russia, India, Croatia and Sweden win at the 17th edition of Kustendorf

Stories of resistance and self-affirmation, all tackling the urge to fight back, scooped prizes at the annual gathering founded by Emir Kusturica  

30/01/2024 | Kustendorf 2024 | Awards

Kustendorf welcomes new and established cineastes for the 17th time

Kustendorf welcomes new and established cineastes for the 17th time

The festival founded by Emir Kusturica is ready to get its 2024 edition started in Drvengrad, Serbia, with Matteo Garrone’s Me Captain kicking off proceedings  

23/01/2024 | Kustendorf 2024

Review: De Facto

Review: De Facto

With her second feature, Selma Doborac pushes the limits of representation and probes the complexity of evil in a stylised, hybrid documentary  

19/12/2023 | Gijón 2023

Review: Los últimos pastores

Review: Los últimos pastores

In this sensorially rich documentary, Asturian director Samu Fuentes follows two brothers who uphold the dying tradition of shepherding in the mountains of Northern Spain  

29/11/2023 | Gijón 2023

Elisa Cepedal  • Director of El Cine, 5

Interview: Elisa Cepedal • Director of El Cine, 5

“My work in the past few years has been an attempt to understand my own identity and political commitment”

The Asturian filmmaker has crafted a cinematic love letter to a past she grew up with  

28/11/2023 | Gijón 2023

Review: El Cine, 5

Review: El Cine, 5

Documentary filmmaker Elisa Cepedal revisits the history of her hometown in Asturias in her personal and affecting sophomore feature  

27/11/2023 | Gijón 2023

De Facto wins Gijón’s top prize

De Facto wins Gijón’s top prize

Selma Doborac, Radu Jude, Luis Muñoz and Alfredo Picaz were spotlighted in the festival’s three competition strands, Retueyos, Albar and Tierres en Trance  

27/11/2023 | Gijón 2023 | Awards

Review: Another Day

Review: Another Day

Albania’s Eneos Çarka has crafted a strong and subtle documentary that is the culmination of years spent following Albanian street artists across Northern Italy  

23/11/2023 | IDFA 2023

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