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Interview

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.
Essay

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.
Interview

Laila Pakalniņa on her Films

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Moritz Pfeifer
We met Laila Pakalniņa during the goEast film festival, where her new film Dawn screened in the competition in 2016.
Review

Laila Pakalniņa’s Dawn (Ausma, 2015)

Vol. 66 (Summer 2016) by Paulina Duda
Laila Pakalniņa's political satire Dawn is based on a shelved Eisenstein project and revisits Soviet myths.
Review

Laila Pakalniņa’s The Shoe (Kurpe, 1998)

Vol. 63 (March 2016) by Zoe Aiano
Zoe Aiano joins EEFB with a review of Laila Pakalniņa's elusive debut feature from 1998.
Review

Renars Vimba’s Mellow Mud (Es esmu šeit, 2016)

Vol. 63 (March 2016) by Konstanty Kuzma
Like many coming-of-age-stories, Mellow Mud by first-time director Renārs Vimba struggles with over-identification.
Review

Juris Kursietis’ Modris (2015)

Vol. 61 (January 2016) by Konstanty Kuzma
Can we care about a story whose protagonist does not? Juris Kursietis' debut feature strains our sympathetic powers.
Interview

Signe Baumane on Rocks in My Pockets

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Colette de Castro
Review

Signe Baumane’s Rocks in My Pockets (2014)

Vol. 43 (July 2014) by Colette de Castro
The courageous debut by Signe Baumane uses the example of her family to question her own sanity.
Interview

Kees Bakker on Baltic Cinema

Vol. 21 (September 2012) by Colette de Castro
Kees Bakker, programmer of the Lussas Film Festival, talks about this year’s Baltic films at the états généraux du film documentaire festival.
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The East European Film Bulletin is a journalistic and literary project dedicated to the criticism of films related to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

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