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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.
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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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