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​​Savina Petkova


178 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2023. Last article published on 19/08/2025.

Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

Interview: Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

“The label of activism is the best one in the world”

The Italian-Paraguayan director analyses her sharp, critical look at Paraguay’s political past and present  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

Interview: Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

“When you’ve lived through a political disaster, you no longer see politics as something that happens during the evening news”

We sat down to chat to the director about her film, which constitutes a warning against sweeping politics under the rug  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: The Pleasure Is Mine

Review: The Pleasure Is Mine

Brazilian director Sacha Amaral’s debut feature is a vibrant portrait of a young man who desires nothing and everything at the same time  

27/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

Interview: Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

“I was questioning the idea that we’re more intelligent than, or simply superior to, the animal world”

The Bulgarian director discusses the joys and surprises of working with animals during the making of her new hybrid documentary  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Boreal

Review: Boreal

The debut feature by Asturian director Pelayo Muñiz Cabal brings the Northern Lights to Madrid  

27/11/2024 | Gijón 2024

Hong Sang-soo's By the Stream named Best Film at the 62nd Gijón Film Festival

Hong Sang-soo's By the Stream named Best Film at the 62nd Gijón Film Festival

Movies by Boris Lojkine, Marta Mateus, Matthias Glasner, and Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu were also among the winners of this year’s Asturian film gathering  

25/11/2024 | Gijón 2024 | Awards

Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

Interview: Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

“I already felt that this set-up could help us have real conversations, where we could really listen to each other”

The Swiss director unpicks her process of pointing the camera at herself and her father, afflicted by schizophrenia  

25/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Silent Observers

Review: Silent Observers

Eliza Petkova’s new documentary adopts the point of view of five animals in a remote Bulgarian village  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Green Is the New Red

Review: Green Is the New Red

Anna Recalde Miranda’s fifth documentary sounds the alarm bells for Latin America’s politics  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Maciej J Drygas’s Trains crowned with the Best Film Award at IDFA

Maciej J Drygas’s Trains crowned with the Best Film Award at IDFA

Also among the European winners were An American Pastoral, Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries, The Guest and Writing Hawa  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024 | Awards

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