The Baltic Focus programme presents documentary films by filmmakers from the Baltic Sea region (excluding Russia), exploring individual experience within broader social, historical and geopolitical contexts. The films address themes of war and its consequences, collective and personal memory, the search for identity, loss, belonging, and the fragility of society in times of change. The programme highlights the Baltic region as a space where the personal inevitably intersects with the political, and where history continues to actively shape the present.
Festival producer and curator of the Baltic Focus competition Vaiva Bauze comments: “The Baltic Focus programme reveals the Baltic region as a sensitive seismograph of European upheavals, where personal stories become testimonies of an era, and documentary cinema becomes a way of understanding both the past and today’s reality.”