“It’s complicated. We don’t know yet if we will have enough budget for the size we see, but we believe we will find a way, perhaps the exhibition will not last three months, but two.
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It is also very important to show respect both to the curator (René Blok – ed) and to the artists, who have written in their calendars that they make the works and the events take place “, explained Dábola.
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On the other hand, opera singer Anna Netrebko received criticism for insufficient distance from Kremlin politics, as she performed in both France and Germany.
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Two films made in Russia are included in the “Baltic Pearl” film festival, including Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Chikov’s Wife”.
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Liene Treimane, head of the Riga IFF, said that this film was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival, expressing confusion about this choice.
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Furthermore, the director himself, as part of this festival, has asked for the lifting of the European sanctions against one of the financiers of his film: the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
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