The New York Baltic Film Festival was founded in 2018 as a centennial event of the three Baltic countries and has since grown into the largest Baltic film festival in the United States and the only one outside of Europe that is supported by the national film institutions of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
Film screenings take place in the cinema hall of the Scandinavian House in New York, offering the audience to meet the authors of the films and representatives of the creative teams; this year, each country is represented by three full-length films and two short films, which are combined in the joint Baltic Shorts Program.
At the end of the in-person screenings of the New York Baltic Film Festival on November 10, the audience will have the chance to see the hit of the season, "Flow" by director Gints Zilbalodis. On November 22, "Flow" will go on general release in US cinemas – first in the largest cinemas in New York and Los Angeles, then in more than 200 cinemas across the country.
