Centre for Scientific Research of Latvian Academy of Culture and Riga Film Museum is organizing an International Academic Conference Baltic Sea Region Documentary Cinema: an Aesthetic and Social Phenomenon.
The conference will be held on 14th-16th April, 2016, at the Department of Theatre and Audiovisual Art of Latvian Academy of Culture. The aim of the conference is to open up a broad research field of the documentary cinema from Baltic Sea Region countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany), studying the main movements and authors, doing comparative analysis of various national cinemas, and other topics.