newsletter #2

As we dig deeper in the many paths of cinema in the Baltic States, we find ourselves moving through dangerous and introspective terrains. Not all is quite what it first seems and there is a lot more than meets the eye. You don’t believe us? Well, allow us to prove you wrong, starting with Latvia’s answer to an uncertain future in suburban life in People Out There; inner isola-tion in Estonian filmmaker Peeter Simm’s Lonely Island ; and to spicy it up a bit more, we also caught up with one of Eastern Europe’s most promising young filmmaker, Aik Karapetian.

People Out There

The first feature film by young Latvian director Aik Karapetian, People out there, offers quite an interesting look at working class society. The story depicts the life of Jan, a young struggling lower class young man who is at the edge of a personality break down. After seeing a beautiful upper class woman, Sabina, he starts wonde-ring about personal changes. He wants to get into that attractive world, but to do that, he has to lose his friend and the environment that shapes his character. READ MORE

Review by Ugne Cesnaviciute (Lithuania)

Interview: People Out There

Interview by Zowi VermeirePeople Out There is the first feature film of young Latvian filmmaker Aik Karapetian. It gives a short look into the complicated life of Jan (Ilya Shcherbakov), who hangs on the streets with his friend Cracker (Eduard Murashov). After the screening at Kaunas International Film Festival we met the director. READ MORE

Lonely Island

Review by Veide Legotaitė (Lithuania) Do you know the feeling when there’s this wish you desire so badly? When you feel that your perfectionist mind and this scorching hot bundle of energy inside your chest feels like as if it is going to make it real? Visible and tangible? Mmm? Yeah, but then you get reality instead: Some purulent wounds that banish you to the desolated islands of inner afflictions. READ MORE

Kaunas international Film Festival 2012