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From ambitious dramas to a TV series inspired by the Danske Bank scandal, Baltic projects look for inspiration in the most unusual places. According to director Ove Musting, behind…
TALLINN, Estonia — Since it was launched more than a decade ago, the Baltic countries have been conspicuously absent from one of Europe’s most influential co-production funds: France’s…
TALLINN, Estonia — Has Estonia’s Tallinn Film Festival ever had it so good? Since Festival Director Tiina Lokk launched the event in 1997, it has emerged as one of the fastest-growing film…
Two weeks after a triumphal opening to the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with “They Will be Dust,” Catalan cinema, honored by a Focus at Tallinn this year, closed out the major film…
TALLINN, Estonia — “Duality,” the new hybrid feature written, directed and produced by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Nezamdoost world-premiered this week in Tallinn’s main competition, marking a…
British director Dan Löwenstein, known for vertical dramas like ReelShort’s “Pride & Prejudice,” is set to direct and produce a new and as-yet untitled U.K.-made microdrama currently in…
TALLINN, Estonia — Mongolian filmmaker Sengedorj Janchivdorj is back in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival with “The Muralist,” one of 16 world premieres in the main…
Norway’s Gudny Hummelvoll, producer of “Billionaire Island,” “Headhunters” and “Occupied,” and heavyweight Estonian producer Jevgeni Supin, behind international historical series “Von…
German writer-director Hille Norden makes her debut with “Easy Girl,” a candy-colored, flamboyant and deeply personal film about trauma, friendship and survival. Its international sales…
Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari (“The Egyptian”) fights with his typewriter to create true lies for the Finnish Propaganda Unit to…
“My parents didn’t just argue,” Carmela confides in her best friend at school, her face darkening. But she doesn’t go into detail. “Have you ever seen your dad act violent? Has he ever…
In a move to boost series from the Baltics and their ties to Europe’s market, the Series Mania Institute has launched Serial Bridges Baltics, a new workshop for Baltic screenwriters and…
Paris-based auteur-driven sales boutique Alpha Violet has acquired world distribution rights to two titles set to world premiere in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival…
The psycho thriller “Lex Julia” by Finland’s Laura Hyppönen (“Live East Die Young”) and fantasy drama “Dice-Ching-o-Mat” by Lithuania’s Kristijonas Vildžiūnas, who was selected for Cannes…
