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Directed by the enigmatic Latvian-Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Volkov (a controversial figure often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky’s spiritual heir), Baltic Sun was financed as a co-production between Lenfilm Studio and a small Estonian production house. Volkov’s goal was radical: no voiceover, no interview, and no linear plot. Instead, the documentary would rely entirely on the "language of light."

The early 2000s saw a boom in independent Russian documentaries attempting to capture the realities of marginalized or alternative lifestyles that were previously invisible to the public eye. baltic sun at st petersburg 2003 documentary top