Established in 1997 in Denmark and running for 16 years in Riga every September, the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (Baltic Sea Docs) is inviting more than 100 film professionals to Riga for its pitching and training sessions. As has already been announced (read the news), most of the activities of this 24^th edition will take place digitally, and the same goes for the documentaries selected to be screened. The entire programme will be available online to Latvian audiences free of charge.

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The online screenings will run from 1 to 6 September, on the platform filmas.lv which is operated by the National Film Centre of Latvia, which is also the organiser of Baltic Sea Docs. A total of eight titles have been selected, and each one will have two screenings during the festival’s running period.

Well-travelled and awarded Romanian documentary Acasă - My Home [+lee también:
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entrevista: Radu Ciorniciuc
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The rest of the selection includes Tribeca-awarded documentary Scheme Birds [+lee también:
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entrevista: Michał Bielawski
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entrevista: Małgorzata Goliszewska y K…
ficha de la película] by Małgorzata Goliszewska and Katarzyna Mateja (Poland); and poetic film Babenco. Tell Me When I Die by Bárbara Paz (Brazil), which won the Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary on Cinema last year. An interview with the film’s director and its producer Mira Babenco will follow the screening.

Moreover, due to the subject matter of the film Self Portrait [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Katja Høgset, Margreth Olin, and Espen Wallin (Norway), about Norwegian photographer Lene Marie Fossen and her life with anorexia, a special discussion on eating disorders will follow the screening of the documentary. Finally, the film Overseas [+lee también:
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entrevista: Yoon Sung-A
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