Screening online from 3 – 24 October.
Klassiki are proud to partner with Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024.
Based in Glasgow, Samizdat is Scotland’s only festival dedicated to the best of classic and contemporary Eastern European and Central Asian cinema. Klassiki is proud to return as the festival’s online partner in 2024. From 3 – 24 October, we will be streaming a selection of titles from this year’s programme, including Olga Chernykh’s award-winning war documentary A Picture to Remember, cult Estonian sci-fi horror Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, a selection of Hungarian animations from the 1980s, plus highlights from the festival’s short film competition.
A Picture to Remember
2023 | Olga Chernykh
Screening online from 3 October
Olga Chernykh’s intimate documentary examines the war in Ukraine through the eyes of three generations of women from a displaced family.
Olga Chernykh’s intimate documentary examines the war in Ukraine through the eyes of three generations of women from a displaced family.
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
1979 | Grigori Kromanov
Screening online from 3 October
An inspector calls on a macabre guesthouse where all is not what it seems in this cult sci-fi horror oddity from Estonia.
An inspector calls on a macabre guesthouse where all is not what it seems in this cult sci-fi horror oddity from Estonia.
Images from the Edge: Hungarian animations from the 1980s
Screening online from 3 October
Highlighting acclaimed artists Dóra Kereszte, István Orosz, and Katálin Macskassy, these three animated shorts from the final decade of communism explore the tension and creativity of a world on the brink of change.
Life During Wartime: three Ukrainian shorts
Screening online from 3 October
We present a selection of titles from Samizdat’s 2024 Short Film Competition: three shorts from Ukraine and Poland that capture the experience of living through war, from emigration to the frontlines, hope to despair.
Filmmaker interview: Olga Chernykh
Available online from 3 October
The director of A Picture to Remember speaks to Klassiki about the personal and political histories behind her intimate essay film.
The director of A Picture to Remember speaks to Klassiki about the personal and political histories behind her intimate essay film.
Read more: the gothic visions of Juraj Herz
To celebrate Samizdat’s screening of his classic horror The Cremator, we explore the career of Czechoslovakia’s master of the macabre, Juraj Herz.
