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281 articles available in total starting from 27/09/2006. Last article published on 11/06/2025.

Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

Interview: Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

"As a civilisation, we’re not dreaming anymore, literally and metaphorically"

The Lithuanian filmmaker talks about his new film, which merges magical fantasy, heart-rending drama and rocky musical with post-soviet realities  

25/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Review: Homes

Review: Homes

The newest film from Laila Pakalniņa is an experimental documentary hybrid that celebrates the home environment in poetic fashion  

25/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: Songs for a Fox

Review: Songs for a Fox

Kristijonas Vildžiūnas’ fifth feature is a melancholic journey into the world of lucid dreaming  

25/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Review: The Wedding Day

Review: The Wedding Day

Wojciech Smarzowski’s Polish official selection entry recounts a dark chapter in Poland’s wartime history  

25/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

Uģis Olte • Director of Upurga

Interview: Uģis Olte • Director of Upurga

“If you reveal everything, the adventure ends”

In the Latvian helmer’s film, a group of influencers descends on a forest, but this time, it’s nature’s turn to have all the fun  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Baltic Film Competition

Review: Troubled Minds

Review: Troubled Minds

In their debut feature, Latvian brothers Raitis, Lauris and Mārcis Abele explore the existential collapse of two artists struggling to cope with their mental-health issues  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele and Marcis Abele  • Directors and DoP of Troubled Minds

Interview: Lauris Abele, Raitis Abele and Marcis Abele • Directors and DoP of Troubled Minds

“There was kind of a mission to address bipolar disorder as an everyday problem”

We talked to the Latvian creative trio about their debut feature, which examines the fine line between artistic creativity and mental-health problems  

18/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

Andrius Blaževičius’ Runner wins the Riga International Film Festival

Andrius Blaževičius’ Runner wins the Riga International Film Festival

Other victors included Stefano Cipani’s My Brother Chases Dinosaurs, winner of the ECFA Award in the Kids’ Reel Competition, and Olga Lucovnicova’s doc My Uncle Tudor, crowned Best International Short  

25/10/2021 | Festivals | Awards | Latvia

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Tallinn Black Nights First Feature Competition title Troubled Minds

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Tallinn Black Nights First Feature Competition title Troubled Minds

Raitis and Lauris Abele’s debut feature attempts to explore what happens to your life once you start playing with your mind  

19/10/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Tallinn Black Nights competition title Songs for a Fox

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Tallinn Black Nights competition title Songs for a Fox

Retired rock star Kristijonas Vildžiūnas’ fifth feature tells the story of a young singer who, after his lover’s death, locks himself away in a secluded country house  

05/10/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

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