Serbian cinema earned global attention through the raw, unflinching work of directors like Emir Kusturica, whose films brought a darkly comic vision of Balkan life to Cannes and beyond. The country's output often blends political history with fierce human drama. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 1.5★
Bulgarian cinema has spent the better part of the last two decades earning a quiet, patchy reputation on the international festival circuit, producing the odd gem alongside a good deal of material that never travels far beyond the region. Zift (2008) remains perhaps the most striking example of Bulgarian genre
Rating: 3.0★
Folk horror has enjoyed something of a quiet renaissance over the past decade or so, with films trading Gothic excess for a more grounded, elemental dread rooted in landscape, superstition, and community. It is a genre that rewards patience, and one that has proved a surprisingly fertile space for debut
Rating: 1.0★
Mermaids have had a curious relationship with horror cinema. The creature sits at a crossroads between ancient folklore and monster-movie tradition, and filmmakers have periodically tried to drag it away from the fairy-tale end of the spectrum toward something more threatening. It is a reasonable instinct. Greek mythology,
Genre Drama
★★ — Coriolanus (2011)
Genre Action
★★½ — Anna (2019)
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