Glasgow Film Festival 2018

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The Dissidents (Sangarid) (Country: Estonia, Finland, Latvia; Year: 2017; Director: Jaak Kilmi; Writer: Martin Algus; Stars: Märt Pius, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Veiko Porkanen)
An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the Eighties to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
Firstborn (Country: Latvia; Year: 2017; Director: Aik Karapetian; Writer: Aik Karapetian; Stars: Maija Doveika, Kaspars Znotins, Dainis Grube, Kaspars Zale)
A thriller.
A Gentle Creature (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa, based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
A woman travels to a remote prison to try to find out what has happened to her jailed husband.
Miracle (Stebuklas) (Country: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Egle Vertelyte; Writer: Egle Vertelyte; Stars: Andrius Bialobzeskis, Egle Mikulionyte, Vyto Ruginis)
A boisterous man in a red tie and baseball cap wants to invest in Irena's pig farm and make it great again.
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