SLOVENIA Once upon a time there was a tolerant country... Brane Mozetič interviewed In the 1980s, Ljubljana seemed destined to become a European gay mecca, but Slovene society changed the following decade. Mozetič explains to Brian J Požun how this has affected Slovenia's long-running gay film festival. PSYCHOANALYSIS If Freud made films... Andrea Sabbadini interviewed Following the 1st European Psychoanalytic Film Festival in London, festival Chairman Andrea Sabbadini talks with Steven Jay Schneider about its planning and success.

BOSNIA Down in the gutter, looking up at the stars Faruk Sokolović's Mliječni put (Milky Way, 2000) Mliječni put is only the third truly Bosnian film since 1995, but this wry comedy about emigration has appealed across previously closed borders, as Andrew James Horton explains. RUSSIA Being 20, 40 years later Marlen Khutsiev's Mne dvadtsat' let (I Am Twenty, 1961) If Mne dvadtsat' let seemed to lack originality on its release, it was because the USSR had changed in the four years since its completion. Josephine Woll looks back at the film and the period.

HORROR Dangerous words Rumle Hammerich's Svart Lucia (Black Lucia, 1992) Svart Lucia's subtle ambiguities—between sadism and masochism; power and powerlessness; and engagement and distancing—make it one of the most memorable European films of recent years, argues Peter Hutchings.

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