World War II, one of the most important military conflicts of the 20th century, has never ceased to fascinate filmmakers, and has recently made prominent reappearances on the silver screen. This conference will provide a forum for discussing cinematic representations of the momentous years of and after World War II in the cinemas of the Baltic Sea Region.
The conference is organised by Estonian Film Museum, Film Archives of the National Archives of Estonia, Estonian Film Institute, Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council (BAAC) and Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT).
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Presentations:
Thursday, 27 October 2016
10.00
Casper Tybjerg (Denmark)
Reflections of Hellfire: Costume Dramas as Allegories in Denmark and Sweden during World War II
Audrius Dambrauskas (Lithuania)
Myth, Money and Memory: Outlines of Film Reception in Ostland Lithuania, 1941–1944
Outi Hupaniittu (Finland)
Soviet Films in Finland – the Politically Steered Film Policies of the 1940s
Zane Balčus (Latvia)
When the Dreams Come True: Trophy Film Exhibition and Reception in Post-War Latvia
13.30
Donata Juškelytė (Lithuania)
Stigmatisation of 1944–1953 Guerilla War in Soviet Period Lithuanin Cinema and Its Rehabilitation After 1990s
Christo Burman & Lars Kristensen (Sweden)
Painful Neutrality: Screening the Extradition of the Balts from Sweden
Screening:
15.00
In the Crosswind / Risttuules
Dir. Martti Helde, 2014, Estonia, 87 min
Friday, 28 October 2016
10.00
Keynote speaker: Ewa Mazierska (Poland-UK)
Women and War in Contemporary Baltic Cinema
10.45
Liis Jõhvik (Estonia)
Representing Women and Gender in the Film Pimedad Aknad / Blinded Windows (1968) by Tõnis Kask
Inga Pērkone (Latvia)
War and Woman in Films by Director Jānis Streičs
13.30
Christo Burman (Sweden)
Beyond the Wall: Aspects of World War II in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
Virve Sarapik (Estonia)
Traces of War in Estonian Movies in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
