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A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer’s Eve

Depending on who you ask, A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer’s Eve might be the all-time Latvian classic.

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The Corridor

A series of self-estranging images that rupture the past with the present.

The Rapidian

Stalker

We don’t always know what is best for ourselves.

End of Year Lists

The 10 Best Films of 2025

2025 was exactly like every year in the history of cinema in its quality. The only variable every year is whether or not one watched the best the year had to offer.

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The Beauty

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Interview with Austeja Urbaitė on Remember to Blink

"I call this emotional blindness."

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Holy Destructors

A Baltic film festival would be incomplete without a documentary in the poetic tradition of the Baltic countries.

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Renovation

My favourite film from the section.

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Borderline

Unless you’re from Eastern Europe, there is a good chance you don’t know that Lithuania shares a border with Russia on the east – as do more Eastern European countries than would like to – and also on the west. It’s a small enclave of Russia called the Kaliningrad

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Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart

The difference between a Barbie doll and a 30-something is that nothing bad happens to the toy when you throw it to the ground.

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Becoming

With such a descriptive title, it’s no surprise that Zhannat Alshanova’s feature directorial debut is a coming-of-age story. The action takes place in Kazakhstan during the post-Soviet era. Seventeen-year-old Mila (Tamiris Zhangazinova) is a talented swimmer and a stereotypically ornery teenage daughter. Her mother (Assel Kaliyeva) isn’t

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Red Code Blue

Sometimes justice needs extraordinary means.

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New Money

Two normal people wake up with inordinate wealth.

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Fränk

Fränk is a dark film where children can overdose, young boys can kill each other, and where disabled men relentlessly cry from the pure evil inflicted upon them.

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Hunger Strike Breakfast

A cinéma vérité approach and adds a dose of absurdism to the crucial Lithuanian historical events of January 1991.

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Therapy

Some activities are intrinsically more cinematic than others. Boxing, for example, with its crunched yet still kinetic space and big lights, is naturally more cinematic than the much less physically dramatic chess. Group therapy is difficult to place on this spectrum of anti-cinematic activities on one hand and inherently cinematic

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The Activist

It can be tender. It can be classically dramatic. It can be sexy. And it can be thrilling.

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Happiness is Living in our Land

Appropriately messy and entertaining doc about Estonian punk band...

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Radical Filmmaking & Killing Penises: An Interview with Miguel Llansó on Infinite Summer

"I first wanted to kill the penis."

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Infinite Summer

Perfectly fits into the contemporary Estonian film landscape with its ironic genre play, strange sexual verve, and popping embrace of quirky digital visuals.

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Laguna

Grief can be foreboding like a lagoon; it can simultaneously and contrapuntally be a site for a baptismal-like transformation. Laguna understands this.

Toronto International Film Festival 2025

Interview with Director Valentyn Vasyanovych & Producer Volodymyr Yatsenko on To the Victory!

We would like to say to the readers of this article: pay attention to your family, to your friends. There probably is not that much time left, so have fun.

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To the Victory!

More hopeful than most of contemporary Ukrainian cinema.

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Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel resists the ordinary in favor of the idiosyncratic and renegade.

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Motorcycle Summer