Tag: Latvian Cinema

Interview: Viesturs Kairišs – January

In anticipation of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with Viesturs Kairiss, whose latest film January is Latvia’s official submission in consideration for...

Sisters | 2022 Warsaw Intl. Film Festival Review

Adult children: Girl Blazes Through Childhood in Olte's Debut Frantically moving and tweaking, the handheld camera desperately tries not to lose focus of a stone-faced...

Oleg | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Immigrant Song: Kursietis Explores a Modern Slave Trade in Sophomore Film Latvian cinema seems on the verge of an international breakthrough, with various new directors...

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The Ghost in the Machine: Kleber Mendonça Filho Plots 1930s Recife Dive from ‘Pictures of Ghosts’ DNA

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