Emilia Sierzputowska

My first vivid memory of female friendship portrayed in film comes from Michael Goldenberg’s 1996 rom-com Bed of Roses. Pamela Adlon’s line, directed at her best friend’s love interest — “If you ever hurt her, I’ll kill you” — is, since adolescence, stored in my why-do-I-remember-this drawer. Fortunately, a sidekick in a rom com who is only there to provide relationship advice to the protagonist is not the full extent of how female friendship has been covered on the big screen.

Poles can't get enough of steamy Norwegian romance novels known as 'sagas'. What explains their popularity?

Recurrent efforts in the life of an unrelenting and witty Swede paving his way for success in the harsh world of finance.

When Ola and Pieter informed their friends and families that they are quitting their jobs and going to Vietnam, the reactions they received were not only supportive but also envious: “It’s so great! I wish I could do something like that”.

In All these sleepless nights, a Polish-British coproduction, Michał Marczak, a 34-year-old Polish director, takes a look back on the experience of youth. His perspective is dominated by a sentimental angle when the camera tirelessly follows daily lives of two twenty-somethings trying to simultaneously decide what to do in the evening and establish what life should be about.

An overview of the month's cinematic experiences.