Joshua Polanski delivers his verdict of the Baltic Competition, at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival; the remembers the hidden gems and reveals his dirty favourites [Read More...]
Gabrielė Urbonaitė’s latest film is an aching and poetic detour into the bewilderment of turning 30, desire, and other sentiments - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
An ornithologist is forced into the world of crime, in Lithuania's weird and porous border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Woman in her 30s struggles with physical image, health and love, in this Latvian film drawing parallels the collapse of the body and of the country - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Teen swimmer finds peculiar way of getting a hormonal boost and fulfilling her career ambitions, in this slow and patient coming-of-age tale from Kazakhstan - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Latvian thriller points to heavenly justice, as a guilt-ridden police officer fails to deliver its earthly version - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Estonians wake up filthy rich and imbecilically squander their fortune, in a comedy featuring some of country's finest actors - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
First loves go unrequited and impossible, in this utterly vile "coming-of-age" tale from Estonia - in the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Media workers go on a awkwardly uncomfortable hunger strike after the Soviet Union attacks a newly independent Lithuania - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Two relationship therapists watch their own marriage break into pieces, in this amusing Finno-Estonian co-production - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
The final instalment of Romas Zabarauskas's queer trilogy is a multifaceted and inventive crime thriller - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Baltic film enthusiast Joshua Polanski looks at the newly announced Baltic Film Competition, from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]
Lithuanian migrant in Norway struggles to reconnect with his birth nation as he returns in order to sell his family property, in this quiet and observational drama - from the Baltic Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]