Borderline (Siena) had its world première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 20 Nov 2025 In the waterways of Lithuania’s Nemunas Delta bordering the Baltic Sea to the west and the Kaliningrad Oblast to the south, ornithologist Vilius (Šarūnas Zenkevičius) monitors the populations of migratory birds and sometimes ventures out at night to rescue them…
Contraband first published by Film4 Dress the familiar tropes of a crime thriller in the dour earnestness and drab local colour of Europe’s north, and the result is ‘Nordic noir‘: Norway’s Insomnia (1999) and Headhunters (2011), Sweden’s Millennium trilogy, Iceland’s Jar City (2006) and Reykjavik Rotterdam (2008), and Wallander and The Killing (for Swedish and…