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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

"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.

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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