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​​Savina Petkova


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

Review: Home Game

Review: Home Game

In her personal new film, Lidija Zelović uses archive and family footage to make a political diagnosis  

21/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Pictures in Mind

Review: Pictures in Mind

Swiss filmmaker Eleonora Camizzi presents a tender, inquisitive and personal debut feature about family and schizophrenia  

20/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Piotr Winiewicz • Director of About a Hero

Interview: Piotr Winiewicz • Director of About a Hero

“What happens if, all of a sudden, this voice we trust is not trustworthy any more?”

The Copenhagen-based Polish director discusses the extensive process of making his film, adapted from a script written by a specially trained AI model  

19/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: About a Hero

Review: About a Hero

Piotr Winiewicz’s debut feature has opened this year’s IDFA by asking questions about image reproduction and humanity via AI  

18/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Gijón's FICX Pro industry programme celebrates emerging talents and innovative forms

Gijón's FICX Pro industry programme celebrates emerging talents and innovative forms

The 63rd edition of the Spanish festival welcomes ten projects in development and post-production from local emerging talents  

31/10/2024 | Gijón 2024 | FICX Pro

Review: Tracing Light

Review: Tracing Light

Light as you’ve never seen it before becomes the protagonist of Thomas Riedelsheimer’s latest documentary  

30/10/2024 | DOK Leipzig 2024

Review: Tarika

Review: Tarika

In Milko Lazarov’s third feature, a teenage girl’s spinal anomaly becomes the stuff of fairy tales in rural Bulgaria  

18/10/2024 | London 2024

IDFA reveals its complete competition line-ups

IDFA reveals its complete competition line-ups

The programme is out for the 37th edition of the world’s largest documentary film festival, which will open with Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero  

16/10/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Marching in the Dark

Review: Marching in the Dark

Kinshuk Surjan’s documentary takes an empathetic look at loss, along with its dire economic consequences and its traumatic debris  

15/10/2024 | Zurich 2024

Sylvia Le Fanu • Director of My Eternal Summer

Interview: Sylvia Le Fanu • Director of My Eternal Summer

"I wanted to capture how being so close to death, in a sense, imbues both the good and the bad in life with intensity"

The Copenhagen-based writer-director discusses the emotional basis of her touching debut feature  

30/09/2024 | San Sebastian 2024 | New Directors

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