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BBFF Dispatch #2: Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter (2022) dir. Elmo Nüganen / The Invisible Fight (2023) dir. Rainer Sarnet

BBFF Dispatch #2: Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter (2022) dir. Elmo Nüganen / The Invisible Fight (2023) dir. Rainer Sarnet

“Prove the righteousness of your path.”

BBFF Dispatch #1: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023) dir. Anna Hints / Four White Shirts (1967) dir. Rolands Kalniņš

BBFF Dispatch #1: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023) dir. Anna Hints / Four White Shirts (1967) dir. Rolands Kalniņš

The Boston Baltic Film Festival runs in-person from 3/1 through 3/3 at the Emerson Paramount Center and will continue virtually through 3/18. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage! Smoke Sauna Sisterhood “Water, take the pain

8 Views of Lake Biwa — Marko Raat [IFFR ’24 Review]

8 Views of Lake Biwa — Marko Raat [IFFR ’24 Review]

This is Raat’s first feature film, and it’s clear he has no interest in the way of the safe commercial film, the route first-time directors so often feel compelled to take. Sometimes, his absurdist debut even approaches outright experimental terrain.

PӦFF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ) Interview: Director Deimantas Narkevičius on Twittering Soul

PӦFF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ) Interview: Director Deimantas Narkevičius on Twittering Soul

Very rarely does a screening of a film become an essential cinephile event.

The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF)

The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF)

The only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) A-list film festival in Northern Europe or the Baltic, Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival just wrapped up its 27th year and celebrated by breaking all major attendance records from the festival’s history, as PӦFF director Tiina Lokk-Tramberg shared

Year Ender: Top Ten Films of 2023

Year Ender: Top Ten Films of 2023

The best films of the year creatively resist the studio destruction of art and suppression of vision with bold statements of visual-sonic distinction

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Dark Paradise

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Dark Paradise

One of the most discussed Estonian films of the year, Dark Paradise is a strange beast from one of the country’s most promising and rising young talents, Triin Ruumet. The 35-year-old’s second feature doesn’t tiptoe around such complex and controversial topics like Neo-Nazism, kink, BDSM, and half-sibling

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Peasants

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: The Peasants

The Welchmans formal innovations breathe new life into the seventh art, and The Peasants is a magnificent example of what it is the artform can achieve and how it can still surprise.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Hada & The Writer

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Hada & The Writer

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) runs in-person in Tallinn, Estonia from November 3-19. The Boston Hassle’s Joshua Polanski will be reviewing and interviewing live from Estonia as part of his multi-outlet coverage of the festival. Be sure to check out his website for updates on additional coverage.

Boston Baltic Film Festival Interview: Director Linda Olte on Sisters

Boston Baltic Film Festival Interview: Director Linda Olte on Sisters

Of the 10 films I saw at the Boston Baltic Film Festival, Sisters will probably be the first I return to when it (hopefully) hits streaming one day. If my recommendation means anything to you, there are still a few days to catch it on the festival’s site. A

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #5: Mariupolis 2, Accidental Santa

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #5: Mariupolis 2, Accidental Santa

The Boston Baltic Film Festival ran in-person from Friday, 3/3 through Sunday, 3/5 at the Emerson Paramount Center, and will continue virtually through 3/19. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage! “Also, I got gas poisoning,

Boston Baltic Film Festival Interview: Director Uģis Olte on <i>Upurga</i>

Boston Baltic Film Festival Interview: Director Uģis Olte on <i>Upurga</i>

The Boston Baltic Film Festival runs from Friday, 3/3 through Sunday, 3/5 at the Emerson Paramount Center, and through 3/19 virtually. Click here for the schedule and ticket info, and watch the site for Joshua Polanski’s continuing coverage! In one of my favorite films from the

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #4: Melchior the Apothecary, Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #4: Melchior the Apothecary, Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost

Poised detective yarns, these old-fashioned populist films are designed to maximize the emotional enjoyment of large audiences while also allowing space for virtue veneration and development.

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #3: Sisters, January

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #3: Sisters, January

Sisters is one of the festival’s most essential films.

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #2: Neon Spring, Tree of Eternal Life

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #2: Neon Spring, Tree of Eternal Life

Fortunately for Laine, and undermining the meteorological skills of Punxsutawney Phil, winter doesn’t last forever.

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #1: Upurga, Kalev

Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #1: Upurga, Kalev

Sometimes we find memorable images in the wrong places.