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Latvian director Viesturs Kairišs’ short film “Cohabitants” was selected to be part of the world’s largest documentary film festival IDFA
The international premiere of the short film “Cohabitants”, made as part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, will take place in the middle of November at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival IDFA. The film by the Latvian director Viesturs Kairišs conveys the culture and life of Piirissaar. Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian…
Read moreWild South goes abroad!
We are very happy to announce that this week our films will be screened abroad for the first time. The Helsinki International Film Festival “Love and Anarchy” will screen “Artists of Survival” by Jaan Tootsen and “The River and A Cat” by Maria Aua on September 25. Beast Film Festival in Porto invites you to enjoy the special Tartu…
Read moreWild South in Estonian Cinemas
As part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, the short film collection “The Wild South” will be released in Estonian cinemas on May 5. The films will bring viewers eight unique stories from Tartu and Southern Estonia by well-known filmmakers from Estonia and award-winning documentarians abroad. The films capture the tricks and mysteries…
Read moreCheck out the programme of Tartu 2024!
The European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 has announced the cultural programme for next year!
Read moreEight filmmakers to capture the life of Southern Estonia
Tartu 2024 Arts of Survival Documentaries has selected eight filmmakers to capture Southern Estonia on the topic of “Arts of Survival”, the artistic concept of European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024. The selected authors will present Tartu and Southern Estonia in artistically exciting ways. The international directors will bring an external perspective, while Estonian filmmakers…
Read moreEinari Paakkanen: Singing is revealing and tells something about us
Text by: Einari Paakanen Earlier this year, I directed my fourth documentary film Karaoke Paradise, which explores the meaning of music and the mental landscape of us Finns who love to sing karaoke. There is a particularly revealing element in the act of singing: we can’t hide our emotions when we sing. Also, not only…
Read moreAndris Gauja: “Stretching my mind around Tartu”
Latvian minds have a long history of going to Tartu to try and make themselves for an inch brighter. It was the second half of the Nineteenth century when many of the New Latvians, as they are called now, went to the Tartu University seeing it as a promising place of education. And it didn’t…
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