Laila Pakalniņa’s Homes (Mājas, 2021)

Vol. 123 (March 2022) by Ana Grgić and Antonis Lagarias
Laila Pakalniņa visibly involves her documentary subjects in the making of her latest film.

Juris Kursietis’ Oleg (Oļeg, 2019)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Is our culture of awareness conducive to our forgetting where the problems lie?

Laila Pakalniņa’s Spoon (Karote, 2019)

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Laila Pakalniņa constructs an experimental documentary around the serial production of plastic spoons.

Laila Pakalniņa on Spoon

Vol. 96 (Summer 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Laila Pakalniņa discusses the approach to and rhythm of her project, and shares her thoughts on the need to disappoint sometimes.

Rolands Kalniņš’ Four White Shirts (Četri balti krekli, 1967)

Vol. 90 (December 2018) by Zoe Aiano
Rolands Kalniņš’ critique of Soviet censorship was restored last year to mark the director's 95th birthday.

Kristīne Briede and Audrius Stonys’ Bridges of Time (Laika tilti, 2018)

Vol. 90 (December 2018) by Zoe Aiano
Kristīne Briede and Audrius Stonys revisit the protagonists of Baltic Poetic Documentary.

Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses (Svideteli Putina, 2018)

Vol. 86 (Summer 2018) by Moritz Pfeifer
Vitaly Mansky rails against the passive bystanders of history, including himself, in this behind-the-scenes look at Putin's ascent to power.

György Kristóf’s Out (Vychladnutie, 2017)

Vol. 77 (September 2017) by Zoe Aiano
György Kristóf's debut gets tangled up in clicheed depictions of the Wild East.

Elīna Vaska on Mellow Mud

Vol. 76 (Summer 2017) by Julia Zelman
Actress Elīna Vaska speaks about Renars Vimba’s Mellow Mud, a Latvian coming-of-age drama in which she played the lead role.

Soviet Occupation in Baltic Film

Vol. 69 (November 2016) by Zoe Aiano
Zoe Aiano recounts the way WWII films from the Baltics have kept reassigning the roles of culprits, albeit always from a position of moral superiority.
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