Shadowed Youth: Kosara Mitic’s ‘17’ Confronts the Brutal Realities of Balkan Adolescence

In the landscape of contemporary European cinema, few debut features arrive with the visceral, unrelenting force of Kosara Mitic’s 17. Premiering in the Berlinale’s Perspectives section and subsequently capturing the…

Into the Shadowed Canopy: Why the Woods Remain Horror’s Most Primal Stage

As the Northern Hemisphere descends into the sweltering heat of midsummer, the human instinct to retreat into the cooling embrace of the wilderness reaches its peak. We flock to the…