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236 articles available in total starting from 27/09/2006. Last article published on 29/04/2024.

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

Signe Birkova • Director of He Was Called Chaos Bērziņš

Interview: Signe Birkova • Director of He Was Called Chaos Bērziņš

“As long as there is silver on film strip – you cannot lose”

As short film He Was Called Chaos Bērziņš looks forward to its international premiere at Karlovy Vary, as part of EFP's Future Frames, Cineuropa talked to its director Signe Birkova  

26/06/2019 | Future Frames 2019

Review: Away

Review: Away

The production history of this feature by Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis is fascinating, but it’s what finally made it to the big screen that truly impresses  

17/06/2019 | Annecy 2019

Filming under way on Dāvis Sīmanis' The Year Before the War

Filming under way on Dāvis Sīmanis' The Year Before the War

The Latvian director began his summer shoot on 19 May, following a winter filming session that took place in early February in Pļaviņas, Riga and Talsi  

13/06/2019 | Production | Latvia/Lithuania/Czech Republic

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