Baltic Sea Docs 2025
A week of pitches, screenings, and deals across the Baltic, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus
From 31 Aug–5 Sept, Riga hosts the 29th Baltic Sea Docs (BSD), presenting 26 creative documentary projects with public screenings in the capital and regional towns. Founded in Denmark and run since 2006 by Latvia’s National Film Centre, BSD spotlights feature-length docs from the Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus: 22 new projects in development/production and four returning in post, across 14 countries. Industry highlights include the “Coming Soon” strand for festival and sales partners, plus intensive training and access to financiers. The film programme opens 2 Sept with Dmytro Hreshko’s Divia (2025), alongside BSD-connected titles 9-Month Contract, Letters from Wolf Street, and On Sacred and Profane. Modrn Times Review will also be on site.
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Baltic Sea Docs opens this week with 26 projects and expanded industry events
Films
9-Month Contract
Director: Ketevan Vashagashvili
It's not just Georgia where women are trying to find a way out of social misery through surrogacy.
Coexistence, My Ass!
Director: Amber Fares
Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
Divia
Director: Dmytro Hreshko
Nature is rarely discussed in the current war effort, but Divia is not silent.
Letters From Wolf Street
Director: Arjun Talwar
When immigrants are the scapegoats for all of Europe's ills, and the far right is resurgent, Arjun Talwar's poetic glimpse into the experience of life as a foreigner in Poland is a potent antidote to hatred.
The Helsinki Effect
Director: Arthur Franck
With a gently satirical outer wrapping and a deadly serious inner core, Arthur Franck's account of the seminal Helsinki Agreement of 1975—The Helsinki Effect—demonstrates just how historic a diplomatic process that was at the time seen as tedious and irrelevant really was.
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