nostalgia
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Last Letters From My Grandma
IDENTITY: From Moldova to the southern Urals to Spain, Last Letters from My Grandma links family loss to larger political fractures, asking what peace costs and who pays.
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My Armenian Phantoms
NOSTALGIA: Private family memories and collective cinematic captions intertwine in this intimate exploration of a dissolving past, which, if not captured in time, can easily disappear in the frenetic pace of our amnesiac digital era.
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Commercial politics
ADVERTISING: Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist Romania.
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What tricks does the Catholic right have to define itself as the centre of Europe
THE WEST: European culture is «characterized by a melancholic feeling due to its alienation or inferiority towards a source that evokes a nostalgic feeling.» Really?
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The «fragile memory» of the man behind the camera
MEMORY: A Ukrainian filmmaker turns to a forgotten photo archive as his grandfather’s memory starts fading away.
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The «good old days» myth
TECH: As society suffers from increased digital anxiety and ecological collapse, Big Tech continues to push its nostalgia-based feedback loop of utopian myth.
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Nothing to envy
IDENTITY: Annexed by Russia after WWII, inhabitants of a picturesque Pacific island long for a better future while finding traces of its Japanese past.
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The dusty library in the digital era
NOSTALGIA: Both a celebration of book culture and serious exploration of its future, The Booksellers peers into a small but fascinating world.
