Balkans Film Resources
Balkan Cinema by ISBN: 0835712907Date: 1982-01-01Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--George Washington University, 1978
Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media by ISBN: 0851708471Date: 2001-08-26Cinema of Flames attempts to go deeper than the imagery and address some of the general concerns of the cross-cultural representation and self-representation of the Balkans: narrative strategies within the context of Balkan exclusion from the European cultural sphere, the cosmopolitan image of Sarejevo, diaspora, and the representations of villains, victims, women, and ethnic minorities, all considered in the general context of Balkan cinema.
The Cinema of the Balkans by ISBN: 9781904764816Date: 2006-08-29Another in the 24 Frames series, each of these twenty-four essays discusses an individual film from the Balkan region (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia-Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Slovenia). These films represent the rich and diverse culture of the Balkans and reveal the stylistic and thematic affinities of a region often perceived as a disconnected cultural space. Films include: Stella (Greece, 1955), Goat's Horn (Bulgaria, 1972), When I Am Dead and Pale (Yugoslavia, 1969), The Red Horse (Yugoslavia, 1984), Stone Wedding (Romania, 1971), and Walter Defends Sarajevo (Yugoslavia, 1972).
Contemporary Balkan Cinema: Transnational Exchanges and Global Circuits by 
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ISBN: 9781474458467Date: 2020This edited collection examines post-2008 developments in Balkan cinema in terms of aesthetics and industry. It provides critical and comprehensive profiles of the cinematic output in each Balkan country, while stressing transnational links, global networks and cross-cultural exchanges.
Coproducing Europe: An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9781800739857Date: 2023-05-12By focusing on regional film markets in Thessaloniki, Sarajevo and Tbilisi, this comparative ethnography looks beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to their role in Europeanization, memories of the Cold War and preconstructed political agendas.
Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema by ISBN: 9780804753685Date: 2007-01-30Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srđan Dragojević; subcultural television and musical performances of the Bosnian pop-art movement New Primitivism; amateur video works made by the returning veterans of the Croatian war; political documentaries chronicling the psychological effects of state socialism; and more.
Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 9048543886Date: 2022-02-07The end of the nineteenth century saw the Balkans animated with cultural movements and socio-political turmoil. Alongside these developments, the proliferation of print media and the arrival of moving images was transforming urban life and played a significant role in the creation of national culture. This work investigates how the unique geopolitical positioning of the Balkan space and the multi-cultural identity of its communities influenced and shaped visual culture and early cinema development. Moreover, it examines the relationship between the new medium and visual culture through the notion of the haptic, and explores the role early cinema and foreign productions played in the construction of Balkanist and semi-colonial discourses.
In Contrast: Croatian Film Today by ISBN: 9780857458940Date: 2012-09-01The Croatian film scene has remained largely inaccessible until now. In this first comprehensive volume on the subject recognized scholars explore not only its recent history, since the establishment of the Croatian state, but also revisit its development during the Yugoslav period. By introducing readers to the complex political and artistic circumstances, the authors approach animation, documentary, and feature films, through questions of style and vision, social engagement, industry, national identity, gender, audience, and domestic and international reception.
Liberated Cinema: the Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001 by ISBN: 9780253342102Date: 2003-01-21Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that have taken place in the former Yugoslavia's five successor states.
Once upon a Time There Was a Country - National and Cynicism in the Post-1990s Balkan Cinema by ISBN: 9783836428804Date: 2008-04-01The 1990s were in many ways the Balkan decade, as the break-up of Yugoslavia returned the Balkans to the center of Western consciousness. While journalism has been the most important channel of constructing a perception of the war, this perception has also been based on films that deal with the conflict. This study explores how Balkan nationalism, already a tainted and ambiguous, took a different shape in the post 1990s Balkan cinema, which critically intervened into both the discourse of Balkanism and internal calls for nationalism. Opening up key questions about nationalism and cinema today, the study is addressed to anyone interested in film and nationalism, national cinemas and their relationship to a global/world cinema.
Post-Yugoslav Cinema: Towards a Cosmopolitan Imagining by ISBN: 9781137520340Date: 2015-09-14Drawing primarily on selected filmic texts from former-Yugoslavia, the book examines key social and political events that triggered the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. Yugoslav politics and society are set within the broader artistic and cinematic strategies that helped stabilise post-Yugoslav territories strategies that were part of the national desire of looking forward to a time of 'perpetual peace' and its subsequent cosmopolitan norms. It argues that filmic texts demonstrate the degree to which nationalism was at the heart of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Yet, the concern of the argument is not simply to offer a filmic critique but to develop an alternative to nationalism; namely, a theoretical framework through which cosmopolitan humanism is at the forefront of addressing former Yugoslavia's political wounds.
The British and the Balkans by ISBN: 9780826422682Date: 2011-10-20Ever since the end of the Cold War the Balkans have preoccupied European public opinion much more than any other region of the old Eastern bloc. To a large extent this is a result of the wars following the break-up of Yugoslavia. The conflicts of the 1990s raised a series of questions about the nature of Balkan history as compared to an assumed European norm. Even more, they triggered prolonged discussions on the form and timing of foreign engagement in the region, both during the war, and ahead of the eastward expansion of the European Union. These public debates underlay the emergence of a related academic interest in intercultural contacts between the Balkans and the rest of Europe over the last three centuries. The British and the Balkans is a close study of the history of the image of the Balkans in Britain in the first half of the 20th century, and of the channels through which this image was built. It proposes new interpretative models for broader research in the formation of public images of foreign lands.
Documents on the Balkans - History, Memory, Identity: Representations of Historical Discourses in the Balkan Documentary Film by ISBN: 9781443812412Date: 2009-09-01This book explores historical discourses on the various forms of identity production in film that are based on memory and shows how these narratives get 'mediated' by (documentary) film. Most films about the Balkans produced in the last two decades were in fact made in response to immediate concerns about the economic crises and political conflicts that struck the region during the 1990s. These new forms of communication about history mostly show a rather self-critical approach. The included case studies focus on several topics, i.e. migration, the reproduction and protection of personal as well as collective identities in post-socialist societies, revolutionary processes towards the official end of the Cold War, the (re-)creation of politically constructed narratives, generational conflicts in the post-socialist period, and the fate of women during the war.
Images of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and film by ISBN: 9781443817059Date: 2017This book observes images of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late eighteenth century until 2016. Like the Balkans as a whole, Montenegro usually reappeared in the Western consciousness with the outbreak of wars, but remained marginalized on the larger Balkan map because of its peripheral political influence and, therefore, remained little known. In the past, Montenegro was experienced as almost unapproachable, barren, and wild. Its people, like their mountains, were seen as massive and fierce, while their primitivism equally.
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe by ISBN: 9780748639168Date: 2012-10-08Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe explores the interlocking complexities of two liminal concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe. Each is a fascinating hybrid that resonates with dominant currents in contemporary thought on transnationalism, globalisation and regionalism. In this critical and comprehensive survey, Aga Skrodzka moves the current debate over magic realism's political impact from literary studies to film studies. Her close textual analysis of films by directors such as Jan Svankmajer, Jan Jakub Kolski, Martin Sulík, Ivo Trajkov, Dorota Kędzierzawska, Ildikó Enyedi, Béla Tarr and Emir Kusturica is accompanied by an investigation of the socio-economic and political context in order to both study and popularise an important and unique tradition in world cinema.
Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts by ISBN: 9780754676294Date: 2009-04-20In spite of the growing literature on discourse analysis, the relationship of discourse to violent/non-violent outcomes of conflict is an under-researched area. This book combines theories on ethnic conflict, identity construction and discourse analysis with a comprehensive and inclusive survey of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. It presents an understanding of the interrelationship between 'words' and 'deeds' grounded through an extensively close analysis of film, television and newspapers samples taken from the period.
Post-Communist Malaise: Cinematic Responses to European Integration by ISBN: 9780813587158Date: 2020-05-15Analyzing work of Theo Angelopoulos, V?ra Chytilová, Srdjan Dragojevi?, Jean-Luc Godard, Miklós Jancsó, Emir Kusturica, Dusan Makavejev, Cristi Puiu, Jan Svankmajer, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Béla Tarr, the book focuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the regions, Post-Communist Malaise asks fundamental questions about film, aesthetics, and ideology. It argues for the utopian potential of the materiality of cinematic time to imagine a new political and cultural organization for Europe.
Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film, and Visual Cultures by - This link opens in a new window
ISBN: 3839425220Date: 2015-04-24The ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav Partisans since the break-up. This edition in contrast looks into the (hybrid) nature of partisanship itself as it appears in film, art, and literature. It explores the Partisans in Yugoslavia in Partisan novels, films, and songs, analyzes the - still ongoing - transformation process of the Partisan narrative, and reviews its transitions into popular (visual) culture.
"Programming Balkan films at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival" from Film Festival Yearbook by ISBN: 9781906678043Date: 2009-09-01The first installment in an annual series, the Film Festival Yearbookfeatures essays on the global proliferation of film festivals, focusing on the dynamics of the festival circuit. Contributions discuss the function of individual festivals within a larger and more complex network and the cultural policies that shape channels of film exhibition and distribution. The inaugural volume will include essays by Dina Iordanova, Charles-Clemens Rüling, Ragan Rhyne, Ruby Cheung, and Rahul Hamid.
Yugoslav Black Wave: Polemical Cinema in Socialist Yugoslavia (1963-1972) by ISBN: 9462980136Date: 2011The Yugoslav Black Wave was a controversial and highly contested movement of filmmakers in the 1960s in socialist Yugoslavia-a country situated at the time in a political, cultural, and social middle ground between the communist East and the capitalist West. It remains controversial today, its most provocative films shelved and forgotten-and, in this new era, ripe for rediscovery. This book is the first in English on the Yugoslav Black Wave, and it offers an analysis of the movement, its key players, its sociopolitical engagement, and its place in the larger story of European modernism.
- Unsettled Media: Documenting Refugees and Europe's Shifting Borders along the Balkan Route / by Eszter Zimanyi
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Dissertation, University of Southern California , 2021.
“Unsettled Media: Documenting Refugees and Europe’s Shifting Borders Along the Balkan Route” examines contemporary non-fiction media about Europe’s so-called “migrant” or “refugee crisis” to demonstrate how multiple supra-state, state and non-state actors use media to unsettle post-Cold War Europe’s material and conceptual borders as migrants and refugees journey across the continent. The author centers their study on the Balkan Route, one of the primary land routes for unauthorized migrants and refugees traveling toward Western Europe. The route traverses Turkey, Greece or Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslav region, before terminating in Austria via Hungary or Slovenia. - "Laughter and Tragedy of the Absurd: Identifying Common Characteristics of Balkan Comedies Under State Socialism" / by Ana GrgićContemporary Southeastern Europe, 2018, Vol.4 (2), p.47-66
- 10 Serbian Film Directors You Should KnowBasic info on major Serbian directors.
- Screen International: "Top Balkan Directors Reveal Struggles" / by Michael Rosser
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18 December 2013.
Award-winning directors Danis Tanovic, Jasmila Zbanic and Srdan Golubovic have revealed stories of “corruption" and “sickness" in their local film industries.
Emir Kusturica by ISBN: 9780252038891Date: 2014-12-03Emir Kusturica is one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated and influential filmmakers. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Kusturica has navigated a series of geopolitical fault lines to produce subversive, playful, often satiric works. On the way he won acclaim and widespread popularity while showing a genius for adjusting his poetic pitch--shifting from romantic realist to controversial satirist to sentimental jester. Leading scholar-critic Giorgio Bertellini divides Kusturica's career into three stages--dissention, disconnection, and dissonance--to reflect both the historic and cultural changes going on around him and the changes his cinema has undergone.
Emir Kusturica by ISBN: 0851708994Date: 2002-08-26With no less than two Golden Palms from Cannes and scores of other top awards, Bosnian-born Emir Kusturica is one of the most decorated and celebrated film directors in the world. Films such as Time of the Gypsies (1989) and Underground (1995) have captivated audiences with their extraordinary imagination, exuberant energy and challenging and often contentious subject matter.
Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev by ISBN: 9780816648863Date: 2009-02-05Duian Makavejev is a filmmaker, teacher, and intellectual whose films intersect with major historical and political upheavals in Eastern Europe during World War II, the unification and breakup of Yugoslavia, and the fall of communism. Subversive and moving, his films remain touchstones for transcultural and political cinema. Matching the intensity of the films, Lorraine Mortimer takes a radically interdisciplinary approach in this first book-length critical analysis of Makavejev's work."
A Portrait of the Artist As a Political Dissident: The Life and Work of Aleksandar Petrović by ISBN: 9781841505459Date: 2013-04-15A case study of the oft-overlooked Yugoslav director's colorful and eventful career, A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident explores how Petrovic developed specific political and social themes in his films. A response to the political vagaries of his time, these anti-dogmatic views were later to become a trademark of his work. Although interest in socialist Yugoslavia and its legacy has risen steadily since the 1990s, the history of Yugoslav cinema has been scarcely covered, and this book marks a fresh contribution to a burgeoning area of interest.
"Jasmila Žbanić's Grbavica and Balkan Cinema's Incommensurable Gazes" byWomen's Cinema, World Cinema by ISBN: 9780822357919Date: 2015-02-20In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, national identity, and human rights.
One More for the Road: A Director's Notes on Exile, Family, and Film by ISBN: 9781800732414Date: 2021-10-15Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlić's life. From his post-Nazi-era childhood in Yugoslavia to his college years during the 1968 invasion of Prague, the Yugoslav dissolution wars, and his subsequent exile in the United States, these personal stories combine to provide insight into socialist film industries, contextualizing south Slavic film while also highlighting its contacts with Western filmmakers and film industry.
- Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Yugoslavia, dir. Dušan Makavejev, 1967)
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- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Yugoslavia, dir. Dušan Makavejev, 1971)
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- Before the Rain (Macedonia, dir. Milcho Manchevski, 1994)
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- Underground (Yugoslavia, dir. Emir Kusturica, 1995)
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- Shok (Albania & Kosovo, dir. Jamie Donoughue, 2014)
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- Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia, dir. Jasmila Žbanić, 2021)
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Additional Resources on Selected Major Films from the Balkans
WR: Mysteries of the Organism by ISBN: 0851707203Date: 1999-05-27The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's film 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism' is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia, it's a film which speaks urgently to the contemporary world.
- Apparatus Apparatus is an academic journal dealing with film, media and digital cultures of Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe, current and historical.
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- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window Searches film and television articles in the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-current) and Treasures from the Film Archives, which contains silent film-era listings from archives.
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- Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text.
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- EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window Search platform for over 50 databases, from Academic Search Complete to Women's Studies International.
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- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window Searches film and television articles in the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-current) and Treasures from the Film Archives, which contains silent film-era listings from archives.
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- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to selected JSTOR e-books.
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- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies This link opens in a new window Annotated bibliographies for topics in the field of Cinema and Media Studies. Combines encyclopedia-style introductions with expert recommendations of the most important reference works, books, journals, and primary sources on the topic.
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- Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text.
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- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-present, plus a selected number of other e-book titles.
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- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.
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- American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES) This link opens in a new window Covers North American and some European scholarship since the late 1980s on East-Central Europe, Russia, the former Soviet Union and former Soviet republics. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.
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- Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) This link opens in a new window Archive of scholarly and cultural publications from Central and Eastern Europe.
- Albanian Center of Cinematography The Albanian National Center of Cinematography (ANCC) was created in 1996 and is the only governmental national institution that finances, encourages and promotes Albania's film production. From 1996 till today (24 years) ANCChas financed 338 films.
- Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded in 1950 and gathers film professionals from the various fields of filmmaking. It has the mandate to develop and guide the national film industry with, at present, 22 production companies producing about 15 documentaries and feature films per year. Moreover, it supports the promotion of national cinema abroad and selects the candidate for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards.
- Bulgarian National Film Center For the creation, the distribution and the preservation of Bulgarian films NFC collaborates closely with the Bulgarian National TV, the Bulgarian National Film Archives and the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers
- Central European University OSA Archive: HU OSA 350-1-1 Balkan Archive - Balkan The video collection of the Balkan Archive is unique in the sense that it combines a wide variety of materials relating to the war in former Yugoslavia. It covers the period from 1990 (and, in some cases, earlier footage) to the end of that decade.
- Croatian Audiovisual Centre The Croatian Audiovisual Centre is the main agency for film in Croatia. It supports development, production, distribution, exhibition, marketing and promotion, as well as professional training and national filmarchive through the system of public subsidies.
- European Film Promotion (EFP) EFP (European Film Promotion) is an international network of film promotion institutes from 37 countries from throughout Europe, each representing their national films and talent abroad. Under the EFP flag, these organisations team up to jointly promote the diversity and spirit of European cinema and talent at key film festivals and markets, in particular outside of Europe.
- Film Center Serbia Film Center Serbia (FCS) is an institution based on the achievements of the highly respected Film Institute (1963-2004). FCS was established in 2004 under the Ministry of Culture, with the aim of strategic development and reconstruction of the Serbian film industry.
- Film Centre of Montenegro The Film Centre of Montenegro is a newly established public institution with the aim of creating the proper, stimulating environment for the Montenegrin film community and its promotion to Europe and the world.
- Kosovo Cinematography Center The KCC (Kosova Cinematography Center) was established in 2004 as a public funding body and central authority for cinematography in charge of developing the film industry in Kosovo.
- NECSUS - "There is no such thing as Balkan cinema, and yes, Balkan cinema exists: Ruminations on the past and possible futures of Balkan cinema (and media) studies?" / by Ana Grgić NECSUS is an international, double blind peer-reviewed journal of media studies initiated and published by NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). NECSUS focuses on cinema, television, and new media studies by publishing research either by European scholars or on European media for a global readership.
- North Macedonia Film Agency The North Macedonia Film Agency is established under the Film Industry Law (Official Gazette of Republic of North Macedonia No.82/2013) and officially began its operation on 01.01.2014 as a legal successor of the Macedonian Film Fund.
- Romanian Film Development Romanian Film Development (ADFR – Ascociatia de Dezvoltare A Filmului Romanesc) was launched at the beginning of 2017 as a non-governmental association with the aim of supporting the development and prominence of Romanian cinema.
- Slovenian Film Centre Slovenian Film Centre (SFC) is a public agency of the Republic of Slovenia which is encouraging creativity in the film and audiovisual field by creating suitable conditions for film, audiovisual and cinematographic activities.
Selected Films from the Balkans
"In outline, this is the story of the tragic romance between a young telephonist and a middle-aged rodent sanitation specialist in Belgrade."
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Before the Rain (Macedonia, dir. Milcho Manchevski, 1994)
"The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski’s this gripping triptych of love and violence crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point."
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Underground (Yugoslavia, dir. Emir Kusturica, 1995)
"In the midst of war, Marko and Blacky - two opportunistic buddies sharing a spirited lust for women, booze and madcap brawling - attain riches and heroic praise dealing arms to the war's resistance fighters."
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Shok (Albania & Kosovo, dir. Jamie Donoughue, 2014)
"Based on true events, SHOK is set during the escalation of the Kosovan War when the country was occupied by Serbia. Two young Kosovan boys, Petrit and Oki, are the best of friends. After Oki buys a bike, Petrit is desperate to have one of his own. Ever the businessman Petrit finds a niche dealing cigarette papers to the occupying Serbian troops. However with tensions and violence escalating in the country, many would see this as traitorous. Building a steady network of contacts, Petrit drags Oki into ever more dangerous situations until their lives are put at risk."
Academy Award Nominee - 2016 Oscars
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Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia, dir. Jasmila Žbanić, 2021)
"Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is on the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?"
Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards and the Film Independent Spirits Awards.
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