email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Black Nights 2023 / Baltic Film Competition

(The article continues below - Commercial information)
sunnysideofthedoc_2025_right_May

11 articles available in total starting from 23/01/2023. Last article published on 27/03/2024.

page:   [1]  2 
Review: Life and Death of a Christmas Tree

Review: Life and Death of a Christmas Tree

Georgian workers risk death to harvest fir seeds for affluent Danes to sell as Christmas trees in Arturas Jevdokimovas’s doc snapshot of two sides of capitalist Europe  

27/03/2024 | Vilnius 2024

Review: My Freedom

Review: My Freedom

A key figure in Latvia’s independence struggle contends with her era’s duplicity in Ilze Kunga-Melgaile’s smart debut historical drama  

26/03/2024 | Vilnius 2024

Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

Interview: Triin Ruumet • Director of Dark Paradise

“Bad things can be fun”

The Estonian filmmaker makes a case for facing your fears as she follows two siblings who are dealing with grief in unusual ways  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: The Brazen

Review: The Brazen

While Western Europe is battling bedbugs, Latvian director of Armenian origin Aik Karapetian drags the viewer deep into a teeming manor, alongside a family of four  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: Dark Paradise

Review: Dark Paradise

Triin Ruumet’s stylish sophomore feature is an explosion of rage and a display of visual acrobatics, yet the core essence gets lost amidst all the narrative somersaults  

15/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: The Peasants

Review: The Peasants

The new film by DK and Hugh Welchman, selected as the Polish Oscar entry, is a visually alluring painted animation which revolves around a young girl whose fate is decided by others  

12/10/2023 | Poland/Serbia/Lithuania

Review: The Last Relic

Review: The Last Relic

Estonian filmmaker Marianna Kaat's stark and challenging documentary sweeps broadly over Russian society but brings little new to the generally accepted view  

08/05/2023 | Hot Docs 2023

Review: Eastern Front

Review: Eastern Front

BERLINALE 2023: Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko deliver a film that is so far the definitive documentary about the Russian aggression against Ukraine  

24/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Encounters

Review: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Review: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Estonia’s Anna Hints makes her documentary feature debut with an earnest and affecting piece that examines the magic of a traditional smoke sauna and those who partake in it  

24/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: Slow

Review: Slow

Marija Kavtaradze choreographs and X-rays the feeling of love with extreme sensory delicacy under the bark of the extraordinary of a case of asexuality  

23/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

page:   [1]  2 

Privacy Policy