ELIZABETE DIDZA, Latvia
Elizabete Didža is a Latvian film critic and multimedia artist working primarily with photography and experimental film. She is currently assisting with the development of the Baltic…
How much praise can a portrait hold before the person disappears? A Quiet Man, a documentary about industrialist, philanthropist and collector Romain Zaleski, is one that tests the limit. His…
When the men left for war in 1939, the women who stayed behind needed a fourth for bridge. That is how six-year-old Romain Zaleski, the future engineer, learned to play.…
In recent years, the Baltic countries have shown an increasing interest in genre cinema, with titles such as the 2017 noir-influenced horror November or the recently premiered crime-thriller The Bog…
A panel titled "How Can Stories Travel" was held on October 14 at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival, in the underground cinema hall set up in the Polish capital's…
Out of the peat rises a shrivelled, mummified boy. His skin has gone amber-brown and leathery, his small limbs pulled tight as rope. The bog that drowned him has kept…
In French filmmaker Félix de Givry’s debut film, a 14-year-old boy’s failed suicide attempt evolves into a magically atmospheric coming-of-age love story, one that feels as though it was made…
A young boy’s body is found six-feet deep in a peat bog, no clothes, no signs of external interference. In the next episode of True Crime Stories, Reinis Kalviņš takes…
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival announce a new partnership, bringing an international FIPRESCI jury to the festival for the first time in…
Where would we be without Nordic melancholia? Alongside flat-pack furniture, woolly sweaters and cinnamon buns, inner unease has become one of the North’s most recognisable exports. For years, Joachim Trier…
Martina Buchelová’s debut feature Lover, Not a Fighter feels almost like scrolling through Instagram Stories and seeing bits and pieces of other people’s existence. Pieced together from fragments of Andrej…
In Eivind Landsvik’s directorial debut Marie Ulven, better known by her pop-star alias Girl in Red, plays Maja, a once-successful musician turned substitute teacher. Her sound, more akin to the…