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Mystic stories and on the road adventure at the Baltic Circle cinemaThe Baltic Circle festival also has its own "cinema" where festival-related films and videos are shown. On Thursday 27th November there is a series of three screenings at Q-teatteri’s big stage starting at 5 p.m with Cleaning up!. This Finnish film, directed by Rotislav Aalto, is about a Finnish cult band Cleaning Women’s zigzag tour through the Baltic countries and Russia. At 7 p.m. we will see Viesturis Kairiss’ film Pa Celam Aizejot (Leaving By the Way) which is based on a mystical Latvian folk tale. The third film at 9 p.m. is German director Anton Adassinskij’s Süd.Grenze (South.Border) where the theme is built around a surrealistic concept of a southern border. Pa Celam Aizejot and Süd.Grenze both have their Finnish premiers at the Baltic Circle festival. The Cleaning Women, a Finnish cult band, will also play at the festival’s Closing Party in Gloria on Saturday 29th Nov. Director Viesturis Kairiss took part in the first Baltic Circle festival in 2000 with The New Riga Theatre’s performance of Dostoyevsky’s Idiot. Anton Adassinskij, the director of Derevo Theatre, is also a familiar visitor in Finland and has, for instance, been spotted at the Tampere Theatre Festival. He is also due to arrive to his film premier in Q-teatteri. Awards and NominationsCleaning up! won the Newport International Film Festival’s prize for Best Documentary this year and was also nominated for a Jussi Award (Finnish Oscars) in 2002 and for the Nordic Council’s Film Prize the same year. Pa Celam Aizejot has won the FIPRESCI Award at the Riga International Film Forum Arsenals last year and the Debut Feature Jury Prize at the Raindance Film Festival in 2002. It was also nominated for the Chrystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czeck Republic in 2002. Short Films about Good NeighboursIn addition to these three films, there will also be non-stop video screenings at the Puoli-Q festival centre on Saturday 29th November. There you will have a chance to view fascinating expressions of neighbourly love between Estonia, Finland and Sweden. Juhan Ulfsak’s and Andres Maimik’s Esto TV and Welcome to Estonia films give the Estonian perspective uncensored and Daniel Alfredsson’s Torsk på Tallin offers a Swedish viewpoint. A Finnish cult favourite, Studio Julmahuvi’s Jeriko television show will also be seen on Saturday. Julmahuvi’s show competed for awards in the international arena in 2000 and includes familiar faces from Q-teatteri. Swedish director Johan Löfstedt’s Konspiration 58 (Conspiracy 58) about unfortunate football organisers will also be shown in the Saturday screenings. The video screenings are free of charge for all and tickets for the films cost 3 euros.
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