Review: Soviet Friendsbook (2020)
Lead by her “anketa” and some Facebook searches, Alyona sets on the mission to track down her classmates some twenty years later to ask them the same, but also some different, “grown-up” questions.
PÖFF Baltic Competition
Review: Latvian Coyote (2019)
As it is the case with the titular animal, the term “coyote” for a human trafficker who knows the uncharted routes over the border, originates from the Mexican-American border.
Review: The Jump (2020)
On November 23rd 1970, in the midst of the negotiations between the American and Soviet representatives regarding the fishing of the coast of New England, a Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka jumped from his ship Soviet Lithuania, swam across the cold Atlantic waters and boarder the US Coast Guard ship Vigilant, pleading for the political asylum only to be turned down and given back to the Soviets.
