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289 articles available in total starting from 27/09/2006. Last article published on 30/07/2025.

How To Save a Dead Friend scoops the Baltic Sea Docs Award

How To Save a Dead Friend scoops the Baltic Sea Docs Award

The 23rd edition of Baltic Sea Docs was brought to a close by the victory of Marusya Syroechkovskaya's project  

11/09/2019 | Baltic Sea Docs 2019 | Awards

Zane Balčus  • Project manager, Baltic Sea Docs

Interview: Zane Balčus • Project manager, Baltic Sea Docs

“We are a platform that opens up opportunities for the international market”

We met up with Zane Balčus, project manager of Riga's Baltic Sea Docs, a pitching forum taking place this year from 3-7 September  

06/09/2019 | Baltic Sea Docs 2019

Tomáš Polenský’s The Pack starts filming

Tomáš Polenský’s The Pack starts filming

The Czech director prepares his fiction feature debut, a coming-of-age bullying drama  

05/08/2019 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Latvia

Review: A Certain Kind of Silence

Review: A Certain Kind of Silence

Czech director Michal Hogenauer’s first feature film takes a sterile approach to telling a perverse story about families and manipulation (and maybe something else)  

10/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Michal Hogenauer  • Director of A Certain Kind of Silence

Interview: Michal Hogenauer • Director of A Certain Kind of Silence

“It is necessary to find your own film language and your own poetics”

Cineuropa talked to debutant Czech filmmaker Michal Hogenauer about his movie A Certain Kind of Silence, the banality of evil, genre filmmaking and minimalism  

09/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | East of the West

Laila Pakalniņa starts a summer shoot for In the Mirror

Laila Pakalniņa starts a summer shoot for In the Mirror

The Latvian director-screenwriter’s new feature is an experimental fairy tale starring Madeleine Valdberg, Elza Leimane and Lauris Dzelzītis in the lead roles  

09/07/2019 | Production | Latvia/Lithuania

Laila Pakalnina  • Director of Spoon

Interview: Laila Pakalnina • Director of Spoon

"If we talk to people through emotions, from soul to soul, it's maybe even more effective than TV and journalism"

Latvian filmmaker Laila Pakalnina discusses with us her latest title, Spoon, world-premiered in the Documentary Competition of Karlovy Vary  

06/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Ksenia Okhapkina  • Director of Immortal

Interview: Ksenia Okhapkina • Director of Immortal

"We adapt to our environment because we need to survive, it’s our instinct"

We have interviewed Russian filmmaker Ksenia Okhapkina, who has just won the Grand Prix in the Documentary Competition at Karlovy Vary with her Estonian-Latvian co-production Immortal  

06/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Review: Immortal

Review: Immortal

Russia’s Ksenia Okhapkina makes her feature-length debut with this Estonian-Latvian documentary filmed in a former Gulag labour camp in the Russian Arctic Circle  

03/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

Review: Spoon

Review: Spoon

Latvian documentary maker Laila Pakalnina returns to the screen with a paean to the plastic spoon. Yes, you read that right  

02/07/2019 | Karlovy Vary 2019 | Documentary Competition

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