A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF PERIPHERIES
What do Yemen and Bulgaria have in common? Seemingly, nothing. Yet both are countries with a socialist past, located on the edge of an Empire. As other continents had their gaze fixed elsewhere, they crafted intertwined relationships with the USSR and the rest of the world. Their stories, free of orientalist stereotypes, reveal new and […]
I CANI
The galgos are very fast, skilled, and cunning dogs. They are trained for up to five hours a day to become expert hunters, unbeatable runners, and ruthless fighters. If they fail to meet their owners’ demands, they are abandoned and killed. Here, in southern Spain, Dora follows the traces of the dogs that haunt her […]
DAD’S SON.
After a failed attempt at self-realization in Berlin, a 20-year-old gay man and poet decides to return to Croatia. He works at the front desk of a Zagreb hotel and continues to write poems that no one will ever see published. The routine of meetings with an older lover, phone calls with friends abroad, attempts […]
GLI INNAMORATI DI PIAZZA OBERDAN
Austrian writer Christian Klinger reconstructs the story of Pino Robusti, an architecture student who was shot in Trieste at the Risiera di San Sabba, Italy’s only extermination camp. Waiting for him during those dramatic days and asking for his pardon are his father Vittorio and girlfriend Laura. Vida Valencic, freelance journalist, programme editor and radio […]
