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© Alexei Melnik
Film scholar and film critic
Country of origin
Latvia

Anita Uzulniece studied German language and literature at the State University of Latvia and film at the Film Institute in Moscow. Additional studies enabled her to write a dissertation on the documentary film 1960-80 in Latvia. She is co-author of "Film History in Latvia" and "Marija Leiko (1989). She is Assistant Professor at RISEBA (Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration) and organizes in Riga every year the film forum "And the World Became Film". As a film critic, she writes about films and publishes reviews and festival reports. In 2020 and 2022, a collection of her articles was published in two volumes under the title “Mans kino (un) laiks” (My Films and My Time). Member of INTERFILM and FIPRESCI.

Current issues

Director Janicke Askevold from Norway wins the Ecumenical Prize of the Churches at the Locarno Film Festival. Her film centres on a journalist and single mother who wants to get to know the father of her child
Film review of Australian INTERFILM member Eloise Scherer

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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