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Savina Petkova

About the author

Savina Petkova is a Bulgarian, London-based film critic whose works have been published in MUBI Notebook, The Quietus, photogénie and more. She's also a PhD candidate at King's College London workin on metamorphoses in contemporary cinema.

Films

  • 27

    (Hungary, France 2023; Dir: Flóra Anna Buda)
  • Eggshells

    (Bulgaria 2020; Dir: Slava Doytcheva)
  • Flores del otro Patio

    (Switzerland, Colombia 2022; Dir: Jorge Cadena)
  • Handbook

    (Germany, Belarus 2021; Dir: Pavel Mozhar)
  • Inherent

    (Denmark 2021; Dir: Nicolai G.H. Johansen)
  • On Xerxes’ Throne

    (Greece 2022; Dir: Evi Kalogiropoulou)
  • Sierra

    (Estonia 2022; Dir: Sander Joon)

Interviews

  • “It’s a folly, it’s slapstick in all its glory”

  • “I wanted to make a film that was about the political ghosts of Brazil, the ones that linger on the landscape.”

Postcards from the End of the …

Not with a bang but a whimper

review by Laurence Boyce

While Konstantinos Antonopoulos’ ‘Postcards from the End of the World’ is not an exercise in angry vitriol that the current state of some of the world would seem to invite, there is a recognisable …

Big City Life

On Chantal Akerman’s shorts

review by Michaël Van Remoortere

No one has captured the emotional reality of big city life better than Chantal Akerman. There have been so-called city symphonies before in cinema, literature, and music—‘Berlin: Symphony of a …

The Trees

All-transcending vocation

review by Bo Alfaro Decreton

Bashir, a Lebanese plant scientist, is called home for the funeral of his father. The restraining nature of social compliance does not match with his nonchalant, restless soul, giving himself and his …

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