The "Baltic Cinema Days" held for the second time grew not only in the number of films and screenings. The audience filled the larger cinema halls, which they moved to this year after last year's success event. Almost 1200 viewers visited six screenings of Latvian and Estonian films in three days. This weekend, 3 more free movie screenings will invite you to see what's new in Baltic cinema.
The project presenting the cinema of neighboring countries is organized by the national film institutions of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. August 20-26 This year, the film event taking place in Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn marks the centenary of the restoration of statehood. In a week in Lithuania, in Latvia and in Estonia, almost 20 free movie screenings were shown, more than half of which took place in the Vilnius cinema "Forum Cinemas Vingis".
The Lithuanian audience was very active: they not only attended the film screenings, but also participated in meetings and discussions with the filmmakers: Latvian directors Madara Dišlere and Janis Nords, producer Liss Lepik and actor Rain Tolk from Estonia.
Celebrating the year of European cultural heritage, "Baltic Cinema Days" also did not forget the classics - the audience had the opportunity to see a restored version of one of Latvia's most prominent classic films, the musical drama "Four White Shirts" (dir. Rolands Kalniņš, 1967), which was presented this year at the international Cannes Film Festival. in the classics program of the film festival. The legendary director of this film, 96-year-old Rolands Kalniņš, came to the meeting with the Lithuanian audience.
Additional screenings of Paradise 26, Soviet Hippies and November will be held this Sunday, August 89. The Latvian film "Paradise 89" (dir. Madara Dišlere, 2018), based on real events, tells about the memorable summer of 1989 through the eyes of children. During the filming, a fragment of the Baltic Road was recreated: 89 people of various ages and generations joined hands again to film the mass scene of "Rojaus 700". "Soviet Hippies" (dir. Terje Toomistu, 2017) is a musical and colorful documentary about the underground hippie movement during the Soviet era. In one of the most original Estonian films of recent times, "November" (dir. Rainer Sarnet, 2017), folk folklore, magic, romantic love and black humor are seductively interwoven. Free tickets for all films can be picked up at the box office of the "Forum Cinemas Vingis" cinema 1 hour before the start of the screenings.
"Baltijos kino dienos" presents two Lithuanian films and their creators each in Riga and Tallinn. This is the documentary "Rūta" by Roko Darulis and Ronald Buozis about the life story of the Olympic champion Rūta Meilutytė. The restored feature film "Children from the "Amerika" Hotel" (dir. Raimundas Banionis, 1990) is intended for the Latvian audience, and the feature film "The Gambler" (dir. Ignas Jonynas, 2014) is for the Estonian audience.
ADDITIONAL SESSIONS
August 26, Sunday
"Forum Cinemas Vingis", hall 12
12.00:89 p.m. "Paradise XNUMX", dir. Madara Dishler, Latvija / Germany, 2018, 89 min., feature film, V
14.00:2017 p.m. "Soviet hippies", dir. Terje Toomistu, Estonia / Germany / Finland, 75, XNUMX min.,
documentary, N-13
16.00:XNUMX p.m. "November", dir. Rainer Sarnet, Estonia / Netherlands / Poland, 2017, 115 min.,
acting, N-13
