Klassiki Journal

You can enjoy interviews, videos and essays from guest filmmakers, critics and the team here. We’ll share insights into favourite films and help you mine the gold that is Klassiki.

From the edge towards the centre: Goran Stolevski on his Balkan folk-horror hybrid You Won’t Be Alone

Interview

Shengelaia at 90: personal reflections on a Georgian film icon

“Still the second sex”: A Room of My Own and female intimacy in today’s Georgia

Interview

Laila Pakalniņa on the making of Dawn, her fever dream of Soviet film history

Interview

Lana Gogoberidze on women’s cinema and her trailblazing career

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Nora Martirosyan and Garegin Papoyan on filming the ironies of Stepanakert airport

Julia Blue’s Roxy Toporowych on wartime romance and the Ukrainian diaspora

Interview

Actor Yura Borisov on working with Kirill Serebrennikov and Covid-era shoots

Sakha Film: an interview with Dmitry Davydov

Interview

Sakha’s amateur film stars Zoya Popova and Stepan Petrov in their own words

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Actor Maks Sukhanov on his career as Russia’s cinematic tough guy

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Sergei Livnev on the wild 90s and returning to directing after 25 years

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“Antonioni told me to sleep less”: Uzbek maestro Ali Khamraev on his unlikely career

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Assel Aushakimova on queer filmmaking and the search for tradition in Kazakhstan

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The Bull’s Boris Akopov on switching ballet for film and 90s nostalgia

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Saodat Ismailova on her film 40 Days and Central Asian cinema traditions

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Angelina Nikonova on her film Twilight Portrait and life between Russia and America

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No solemn monolith: Aleksandr Lungin on his debut film, Great Poetry