The Klassiki Podcast

Go deeper into Eastern European film.
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Witching hours: the literary legends of Ukrainian horror

István Szabó’s dance with the devil

Woman on the edge: the world of Leida Laius

Sergei Loznitsa takes us inside the Imperium

Locarno 2026 festival report: Florin Șerban, Isabelle Stever, Natalka Vorozhbyt

Films of the forest, from Tarkovsky to Kurosawa

Mark Cousins tells the story of documentary film

The most important art: Ian Christie’s journey through late Soviet cinema

Otar Iosseliani’s fables of modern life

BONUS: Golden Apricot festival report

Unravelling the twisted crime films of Corneliu Porumboiu

The Klassiki Kino Club: Tough Kids

Beyond Mr Nobody: documentary under Putin

Boris Barnet: poet of the outskirts

Valeska Grisebach returns with The Dreamed Adventure

The moral maze of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog

Artavazd Pelechian: poetry at a distance

The Klassiki Kino Club: Getting to Know the Big Wide World

Peter Strickland heads back to the East

The Czechoslovak New Wave and beyond

To dance is to resist: queer life in wartime Ukraine