Vladan Petković

About the author

Vladan Petković is a film journalist, critic and festival programmer. He writes for Cineuropa, Screendaily, Talking Shorts, Modern Times Review, and IDFA's website, and picks films for ZagrebDox, FeKK Ljubljana and the Festival of Investigative Cinema in Rab, Croatia.

Films

Naya – Der Wald hat tausend A …

Homo Lupo Lupus Est

review by Vladan Petković

"The forest has a thousand eyes," goes an old German hunters' proverb. It obviously refers to eyes of wild animals, but in his short documentary ‘Naya — Der Wald hat tausend Augen’, Dutch filmmaker Sebas …

Fringes of (Chinese) Animation

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2020

review by Youyang Yu

Compared to Western standards, contemporary indie Chinese animation often rises above the surface thanks to its bold and wild graphics, straddling between the line of experimental films and the art …

Not Even Neon Makes Them See Us

Deconstructing realism in the modern day

review by Laurence Boyce

A number of recent short films that have had high-profile wins on the festival circuit are notable for how they play with realist tropes. We examine some of the films to find a young generation …