From world premieres to the best of the year and from old gold to modern classics – the 30th PÖFF pays tribute to Baltic cinema in all its diversity. Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian films in various formats and from different periods.
A bitter feud between two brothers becomes a ruthless game of chess, fuelled by ideology, ego, lies and fear.
Beneath the Baltic Sea’s calm surface lies a wounded world, still burdened by the weapons of war.
The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday.
Behind iron bars and stone walls, men stripped of freedom search for dignity and redemption.
While most pensioners are slowing down, one 87-year-old is preparing for a final high-speed race across the ice.
One of the most outstanding Latvian films based on a short story by Rudolfs Blaumanis.
A new documentary about Jüri Järvet, Estonia’s most internationally successful and best-known actor.
These seven siblings saw the glaciers disappear long before anyone else noticed.
A portrait of contemporary Belarus told through the voices silenced by an autocratic regime.
A one-night stand or rape? Victim or coward? Three people on an island confront a shared past.
Art therapy, para-archery and summiting peaks: life on the front line against an enemy five times larger.
Amber washes up on the shore after a storm. Just like everything else worth collecting.
A brave, taut and explosive thriller from Andrey Zvyagintsev that brilliantly melds the personal and the political.
The history of Estonian sport through the photographs of Lembit Peegel.
A Finnish black comedy with a Christmas feel, filmed in Estonia and served up with a twist.
A punk-infused shot in the arm for documentary cinema – welcome to the world of artist Kara Popicon.
A thousand horsepower, sideways and at full throttle.
The roots of cosmic music, following the interplanetary sounds of Sun Ra’s Arkestra. What a trip!
An intense relationship drama about a couple pushed to their limits on their quest to have a child.
A small street of just 800 metres on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga.
A Lithuanian cult musical where a devilish marriage arrangement explodes into a wild and camp spectacle.
One of the most original Lithuanian films in film history.
A lyrical, insightful psychological portrait of female dancers across generations and the sacrifices ballet demands.
The mountains gave him everything he longed for. In the end, they took even more.
A prodigal son among thieves, bandits, lovers, and ghosts, in a world where honour and morals blur.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The contrasting extremes in the life of Toomas Leius, Estonia’s greatest male tennis player of all time.
A profoundly humanist drama of dignified Ukrainians against fascist occupiers.
French New Wave meets Lithuanian youth in a stylish coming-of-age story about love, freedom and finding yourself.