Film writer, critic, programmer based in Berlin + Brussels. Covering next: One World Prague, Stockfish. Programmer @ One World Slovakia / editorial contributor @ Rotterdam. FIPRESCI + European Film Academy member. Enthusiast of Balkan + Baltic + queer cinema. Contact me: liv.on.cinema 'at' gmail 'dot' com
Romanian Director Andrei Epure Drills Down on ‘Sabotaging Realism’ in His Locarno Player ‘Don’t Let Me Die’
LOCARNO 2025: Speaking with Variety, the Bucharest-based filmmaker describes how he disrupts the “fragile frontier” between binaries – life and death, human and animal, real and unreal – that bleed through the film’s experientiality.
The Long-Necked Gaze: Seedlings of an Animalic Imagination
FEATURE: In recent years, some cinema has taken a bold turn away from anthropomorphism in its depiction of nonhuman animals, refusing to “make tame.”
This city is our playground: A drive-by of Grand Theft Auto machinima
Grand Theft Hamlet might be the highest profile film made inside Rockstar's flagship franchise, but it's certainly not the first – join us on a cruise through San Andreas Cinema.
Sarajevo, As Told By Other People: The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival
Report of the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival: a city of history, brand, and juxtapositions.
Interview with John Nein, senior programmer at Sundance Film Festival
John Nein speaks about the importance of queer stories to American independent cinema and Sundance's approach to supporting filmmakers.
Review: Left-Handed Girl
ZURICH 2025: Shih-Ching Tsou's engrossing and boisterous solo debut is an enchanting and colourful ride through today’s Taipei, as seen through the eyes of multiple generations.
Locarno 2025 | Trapped in the Machine: “Impressions of Switzerland” and Virtual Reality
LOCARNO 2025: In a VR restoration of a “Swissorama” project, we peer into the past across a technological divide.
Interview: Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga
VENICE 2025: The director of The Blue Caftan speaks about bringing to the screen the unique beauty and complexity of her home city of Tangier.
Swiss Bosnians process trauma of war at Sarajevo Film Festival
Two Swiss documentaries, The Boy from the River Drina and No One Will Hurt You, delve into a violent history, rejecting the silence over the Bosnian War maintained by those who fled the former Yugoslavia and sought refuge in Switzerland.
Review: Bad Apples
TORONTO/SAN SEBASTIÁN 2025: Saoirse Ronan is a teacher in crisis in Jonatan Etzler’s sophomore feature, a primary school-set satire in which perhaps there’s no such thing as a good person.
Interview: Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel • Director of and actor in Couture
TORONTO/SAN SEBASTIÁN: The director and actor share their understanding of the movie’s intricate themes of body politics, sexuality and finding connections in seemingly different lived experiences.
Review: The Visitor
Vytautas Katkus makes his feature debut with a poignant beach-town tale carved through the connections between individuals, spaces and encounters.
Honouring a Place
LEUVEN SHORTS 2024: Throughout multiple films, Basil Da Cunha has introduced a postcolonial orientation to filmmaking, in which the community he depicts is involved in telling its own stories and reclaiming its narratives.
Interview: Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End
TROMSØ 2025: The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our collective gravitation towards bystanderism and self-deception.