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Glasgow Film Festival · 2018

Glasgow Film Festival 2018

Pure Baltic

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4 films · 2 reviews

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The Dissidents (Sangarid)

Review preview for The Dissidents

As a comedy it delivers laughs, as a piece of northerly 'ostalgia' it manages quite ably to convey culture clashes and the various disappointments of leaving one's homeland.

Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the Eighties to fulfill their dreams in the free world.

(Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia; Year: 2017; Director: Jaak Kilmi; Writer: Martin Algus; Stars: Märt Pius, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Veiko Porkanen)

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Firstborn

A thriller.

(Country: Latvia; Year: 2017; Director: Aik Karapetian; Writer: Aik Karapetian; Stars: Maija Doveika, Kaspars Znotins, Dainis Grube, Kaspars Zale)

A Gentle Creature

A woman travels to a remote prison to try to find out what has happened to her jailed husband.

(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa, based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Miracle (Stebuklas)

Review preview for Miracle

Miracle is the Donald Trump joke that arrived at the party too late.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
A boisterous man in a red tie and baseball cap wants to invest in Irena's pig farm and make it great again.

(Country: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Egle Vertelyte; Writer: Egle Vertelyte; Stars: Andrius Bialobzeskis, Egle Mikulionyte, Vyto Ruginis)

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