With quarantine continuing to drag on with no certain end in sight, people all around the world are turning overwhelmingly to streaming platforms to fill their sudden extra free time.
An Balkan-oriented alternative to Netflix is CineSquare, a subscription-based service available in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. For a monthly subscription fee of €1.99, one can obtain access to a number of independent and art-house European and Balkans films.
Films exploring issues of women’s rights, same-sex relationships, and immigration in the Balkans tend to be rare enough to be made, let alone generate a profit, that it is difficult to be able to watch them outside film festivals or very limited showings in select countries, so a platform that brings them together under a single subscription is a welcome service.
