Boston Baltic Film Festival

A collection of 25 posts

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The Arvo Pärt Trilogy

Part of the 2026 Boston Baltic Film Festival

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To Be Continued & To Be Continued. Teenhood

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BBFF Dispatch # 3: Renovation and Rolling Papers

I am convinced [Renovation] is a masterpiece.

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BBFF Dispatch # 1: Fränk, Borderline, and Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart

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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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BBFF Interview: Tomas Vengris

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Interview

BBFF Interview: Laurynas Bareiša

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BBFF Dispatch #5: Period Pictures

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BBFF Dispatch #4: Cats and Sculptures

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BBFF Dispatch #3: Is It Easy to Be … Trilogy

Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025.

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BBFF Dispatch #2: Two Baltic Movies Prominently Featuring Lakes

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BBFF Dispatch #1: Three Highlights from Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania

The following dispatch features reviews of Podnieks on Podnieks. A Witness to History; Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania; & Lioness.

Reviews

BBFF Dispatch #4: Lovable (2022) dir. Staņislavs Tokalovs / Faulty Brides (2023) dir. Ergo Kuld

Staņislavs Tokalovs must have been one of the Baltics’ busiest film creatives over the past few years because he has three separate entries in this year’s Boston Baltic Film Festival...

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BBFF Interview: Staņislavs Tokalovs

"I started to think, 'Okay, so I can either take the money and rewrite what he wants' — but I had to overstep myself — or I say, 'Okay, you go F-yourself?' It took me a couple of days, but I decided not to write it."

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BBFF Dispatch #3: Everything Will Be Alright (2023) dir. Staņislavs Tokalovs / The Poet (2022) dir. Vytautas V. Landsbergis & Giedrius Tamoševičius

“I will put a mask on you just in case,” Irina tells her mother at a V-Day event during the pandemic. “Okay, but why?”

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BBFF Interview: Maarja Johanna Mägi

"Well, this profession depends a lot on luck. If you happen to be in the right place and someone who just needs your type of acting will see you."

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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

“Prove the righteousness of your path.”

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #3: Sisters, January

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

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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.

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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #1: Upurga, Kalev

Sometimes we find memorable images in the wrong places.