Riga, Nov. 1, LETA. From November 3, the fourth Baltic Film Festival in New York will take place in person at the “Scandinavian House” in New York and from November 5 in online screenings throughout the USA, Kristīne Matīsa, a representative of the National Film Center (NCC), informed LETA.
She said that the program includes 12 films from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, including international premieres of several new films.
The NKC representative pointed out that the Fourth Baltic Film Festival was designed as a hybrid festival, during which live screenings from November 3 to 7 at the “Scandinavian House” and online screenings throughout the United States from November 5 to 14 are planned.
At the Baltic Film Festival, Latvia is represented by three feature films and an insight into the multi-series film “Emilija. Queen of the Latvian Press”. It is planned that the first two series will be screened at the festival in one screening, just as it happened in Latvian cinemas.
The international premiere of this festival will be director Matissas Kaža’s feature film “Wild East. Where will the road lead”, which was released in Latvia in early October, and director Mārtiņš Graud’s documentary “Tree Opera”, .
The US premiere will be celebrated with the participation of the director Laila Pakalniņa’s latest feature film “Mirror”, which premiered in Latvia during the Riga International Film Festival (Riga IFF). Directors Kaža and Grauds will also go to New York to meet cinema-goers.
Matīsa pointed out that two co-productions in the festival program are closely related to Latvia – the Lithuanian documentary film “Leap” or “Jump”, in the production of which the Latvian studio “VFS Films” has collaborated with director Giedri Žickīte, and the Estonian historical feature film “Suflieris” or “Dawn of War”. “, in the production of which the studio” Film Angels Production “participated and the roles are played by Latvian actors, including Agnese Budovska and Kaspars Znotins.
The opening film of the festival on November 3 will be the feature film “Goodbye, USSR” or “Goodbye Soviet Union” co-produced by Estonia and Finland, which was shown in Latvia at the Baltic Film Days organized by NKC in August. The program of the festival also includes the Lithuanian feature film “Runner”, which has received the Riga IFF main prize, other Lithuanian and Estonian films are also familiar to Latvian viewers, but they will arrive in the United States for the first time.
The Baltic Film Festival in New York was held for the first time in 2018.
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