{"id":8159,"date":"2016-10-13T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camernew.klienci.052b.com\/przeglad-kina-panstw-nadbaltyckich\/"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T09:40:50","slug":"przeglad-kina-panstw-nadbaltyckich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/przeglad-kina-panstw-nadbaltyckich\/","title":{"rendered":"BALTIC CINEMA REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Baltic Cinema Review <\/strong>will be the second part of the Camerimage<\/strong> programme for the second time. After last year\u2019s edition, during which we presented eight films, this year we have invited other countries who cooperate with us to take part in the overview. It is our pleasure to present you with the achievements of eleven countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Russia, Belarus, Norway, and Iceland.<\/span><\/div>\n

We have chosen the films based on critics\u2019 and film journalists\u2019 votes for the film that will represent their country. By giving critics and film journalists a chance to vote, we wanted to provide you with a different point of view, and thanks to that we have managed to gather an interesting and genuine composition for this Camerimage<\/strong> section that represents what Baltic critics think are the most attractive recent works in their country\u2019s cinematography.<\/span><\/div>\n

This is the line-up for the Baltic Cinema Review 2016:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Sara and her dad Dave move to a small village that is haunted by the suicides of its young inhabitants. Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie, while Dave, as the town\u2019s new police officer, tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides. The film focuses on the relationships between the vulnerable teenagers and their parents, who are left in the dark as the inexplicable suicides gradually take on the character of a punishing ritual.<\/div>\n
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Director: <\/strong>Jeppe R\u00f8nde<\/strong><\/div>\n

Cinematographer: <\/strong>Magnus Nordenhof J\u00f8nck<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Denmark, USA, UK, 2015<\/strong><\/div>\n
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It is the final year of WWI. The exhausted German military surgeon Ulrich is sent to inspect a remote convalescent home for shell-shocked patients. The strange world he encounters, where reality appears more like fiction, challenges for his cold, rational mind. His fruitless efforts to remodel the place and an unexpected attachment to a mysterious savage boy from the surrounding woods lead Ulrich to discover his one true self. Very soon this unlikely sanctuary will have to make its last stand against the approaching madness of the war.<\/p>\n

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Director: <\/strong>Davis Simanis Jr.<\/strong><\/div>\n
Cinematographer: <\/strong>Andrejs Rudz\u0101ts<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Endel Neils, an agent working for Stalin\u2019s secret police, escapes from Leningrad to a godforsaken Estonian village. He becomes a teacher in a local school and starts a fencing club. Neils turns out to be gifted and understanding teacher who cares for his pupils. Among his students there are many orphans who lost their parents due to Soviet deportations. Through the fencing the students can express themselves and escape from reality. Their skills grow so fast that they start to consider entering the Leningrad fencing tournament. Neils is faced with a choice: his own safety and his pupils\u2019 disappointment or putting his life in danger by confronting his own past. The dilemma becomes serious when his colleague begins to investigate Neils\u2019 past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Polish title: Szermierz<\/strong><\/div>\n
Director: Klaus H\u00e4r\u00f6
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Germany, Estonia, Finland, 2015<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The senior fishery control inspector Trofim Rusanov \u2013 elderly, morose and unsociable \u2013 thinks that everyone around him is a criminal and is unforgiving of even the slightest deviation from the fishing rules and the norms of humanity. During his usual route across the lake, Trofim gets into a fight with the local fishermen and loses his boat. On his 20 km way home around the huge lake, he finds an abandoned child in a hunter\u2019s lodge. His five-day quest through the forest to search for the guilty mother of the child turns out to be a quest for Trofim\u2019s soul. This may be the first time in his life that he feels compassion.<\/div>\n

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Director: Viktor Dement<\/strong>
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Vincentas is the best employee at the emergency services station and has a single burning passion \u2013 gambling. Whenever he finds himself in a difficult situation, the medic is forced to grab onto something radical to pay off the money he is constantly losing. Vincentas is suddenly struck by the idea of creating an illegal game involving his profession. Initially the employees at the emergency services are the only ones attracted to this macabre engagement. Soon enough, however, the idea kicks off and starts spreading like wildfire. His medic colleagues become betting agents, while Vincentas takes control of the bank. As financial matters keep on improving, his co-worker Ieva starts objecting to the game, even though a passionate relationship has unfolded between her and Vincentas. Soon enough he is going to face making a fateful decision \u2013 the game or love.<\/div>\n
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Laura, an excellent war photographer, dies in an accident, leaving behind a husband and two adult sons. The men, devastated by her death and unable to deal with their grief, lose contact with each other. Three years after Laura\u2019s death, an exhibition of her work brings them together again. Reminiscing about the past uncovers forgotten secrets, unspoken regrets, and a well of repressed feelings.<\/div>\n
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\u2018You\u2019re famous. That\u2019s what you wanted. Being famous means having someone like me.\u2019 \u2013 Sebastian Z\u00f6llner in Germany shortly before the turn of the millennium. Sebastian Z\u00f6llner, art journalist and master of overconfidence, plans his big coup: a tell-all book about the legendary but almost forgotten painter Manuel Kaminski, a pupil of Matisse and friend of Picasso who once became famous as \u2018the blind painter\u2019. Z\u00f6llner, an unscrupulous and ambitious careerist, makes his way to the remote chalet high in the Alps where the ageing artist lives withdrawn and shielded by confidants. Sebastian intrudes into Kaminski\u2019s home, life, and past, unceremoniously taking him on a breakneck and insane journey to his childhood sweetheart, who has long been considered dead. On the way, he tries to elicit Kaminski\u2019s secrets with cunning and audacity. But Sebastian soon discovers that, whether blind or not, he is in no way the old man\u2019s equal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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It is 2017. There is a war going on in Europe. Three people have moved to a farm by the sea, on the edge of the Roukli oak grove. Jan, a writer, his sister Eeva, a music teacher, and her husband Villu, a composer. Jan\u2019s former spouse, Marina, arrives unexpectedly to be the fourth \u2013 and in some cases unwanted \u2013 inhabitant. The war is still far away, but when low-flying fighter jets and missiles roar over their heads one sunny day, anxieties rise and relations become tense. After more bombing and the destruction of the capital city, two refugees who claim to be from Roukli arrive on the farm. They say that their lives are endangered by their pursuers, who are led by a bandit named Peedu. Our protagonists have to accept the refugees onto the farm. Suddenly it turns out that one of them bears Christ\u2019s stigmata, as well as a hole in his ribs. Something strange is afoot when Peedu\u2019s horsemen arrive after the protagonists have made an attempt to drink their fear away, and the situation quickly deteriorates…<\/div>\n
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Director: <\/strong>M\u00e5ns M\u00e5nsson<\/strong><\/div>\n

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