TALLINN — While the Kino Pavasaris film festival starts this weekend in Vilnius, Estonian cinephiles don’t have to feel left out.

Tallinn’s Artis Cinema is devoting this week (May 19 to May 25) to independent American movies. The theme is immigrants in the U.S.

Although the films are released over the course of several decades, the issue fits today’s situation with Baltic states facing large-scale emigration for better economic opportunities in [private_supervisor]Western Europe and North America.

The movie week was opened with “Amreeka,” filmed in cooperation with U.S. and Canada in 2009. The drama of two Muslims, a mother and a son in Illinois in the beginning of the war in Iraq, was awarded at Cairo and Cannes Film Festivals. “Amreeka” is followed by “Stranger than Paradise,” Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 classic about first-generation Hungarian-Americans wandering around the U.S.; “House of Sand and Fog,” a critically-acclaimed 2003 film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly about Iranian immigrants in California; “The Wedding Banquet,” about a gay Taiwanese man’s fake marriage; “In America,” about the struggle of Irish immigrants in New York Ireland, UK, U.S. 2002; “America America,” Elia Kazan’s 1963 classic about ethnic Greek’s attempt to escape Ottoman repression by emigrating to the U.S. The movie week’s closing film is the comedy “Baghdad Café.”

The American movie week is organized by the Estonian film company Tallinnfilm and the nonprofit U.S. Research and Educational Programs Alumni in Estonia.

The American movie week is soon followed by a Japanese animated films festival from April 2 to 11, and a Chinese movie week from April 26 to May 1.

The Artis Center is located in the headline-grabbing Solaris Center located in the center of Tallinn.

More information on the film schedule can be seen on here.

— Baltic Reports editor Nathan Greenhalgh contributed to this article. [/private_supervisor] [private_subscription 1 month]Western Europe and North America.

The movie week was opened with “Amreeka,” filmed in cooperation with U.S. and Canada in 2009. The drama of two Muslims, a mother and a son in Illinois in the beginning of the war in Iraq, was awarded at Cairo and Cannes Film Festivals. “Amreeka” is followed by “Stranger than Paradise,” Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 classic about first-generation Hungarian-Americans wandering around the U.S.; “House of Sand and Fog,” a critically-acclaimed 2003 film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly about Iranian immigrants in California; “The Wedding Banquet,” about a gay Taiwanese man’s fake marriage; “In America,” about the struggle of Irish immigrants in New York Ireland, UK, U.S. 2002; “America America,” Elia Kazan’s 1963 classic about ethnic Greek’s attempt to escape Ottoman repression by emigrating to the U.S. The movie week’s closing film is the comedy “Baghdad Café.”

The American movie week is organized by the Estonian film company Tallinnfilm and the nonprofit U.S. Research and Educational Programs Alumni in Estonia.

The American movie week is soon followed by a Japanese animated films festival from April 2 to 11, and a Chinese movie week from April 26 to May 1.

The Artis Center is located in the headline-grabbing Solaris Center located in the center of Tallinn.

More information on the film schedule can be seen on here.

— Baltic Reports editor Nathan Greenhalgh contributed to this article. [/private_subscription 1 month] [private_subscription 4 months]Western Europe and North America.

The movie week was opened with “Amreeka,” filmed in cooperation with U.S. and Canada in 2009. The drama of two Muslims, a mother and a son in Illinois in the beginning of the war in Iraq, was awarded at Cairo and Cannes Film Festivals. “Amreeka” is followed by “Stranger than Paradise,” Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 classic about first-generation Hungarian-Americans wandering around the U.S.; “House of Sand and Fog,” a critically-acclaimed 2003 film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly about Iranian immigrants in California; “The Wedding Banquet,” about a gay Taiwanese man’s fake marriage; “In America,” about the struggle of Irish immigrants in New York Ireland, UK, U.S. 2002; “America America,” Elia Kazan’s 1963 classic about ethnic Greek’s attempt to escape Ottoman repression by emigrating to the U.S. The movie week’s closing film is the comedy “Baghdad Café.”

The American movie week is organized by the Estonian film company Tallinnfilm and the nonprofit U.S. Research and Educational Programs Alumni in Estonia.

The American movie week is soon followed by a Japanese animated films festival from April 2 to 11, and a Chinese movie week from April 26 to May 1.

The Artis Center is located in the headline-grabbing Solaris Center located in the center of Tallinn.

More information on the film schedule can be seen on here.

— Baltic Reports editor Nathan Greenhalgh contributed to this article. [/private_subscription 4 months] [private_subscription 1 year]Western Europe and North America.

The movie week was opened with “Amreeka,” filmed in cooperation with U.S. and Canada in 2009. The drama of two Muslims, a mother and a son in Illinois in the beginning of the war in Iraq, was awarded at Cairo and Cannes Film Festivals. “Amreeka” is followed by “Stranger than Paradise,” Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 classic about first-generation Hungarian-Americans wandering around the U.S.; “House of Sand and Fog,” a critically-acclaimed 2003 film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly about Iranian immigrants in California; “The Wedding Banquet,” about a gay Taiwanese man’s fake marriage; “In America,” about the struggle of Irish immigrants in New York Ireland, UK, U.S. 2002; “America America,” Elia Kazan’s 1963 classic about ethnic Greek’s attempt to escape Ottoman repression by emigrating to the U.S. The movie week’s closing film is the comedy “Baghdad Café.”

The American movie week is organized by the Estonian film company Tallinnfilm and the nonprofit U.S. Research and Educational Programs Alumni in Estonia.

The American movie week is soon followed by a Japanese animated films festival from April 2 to 11, and a Chinese movie week from April 26 to May 1.

The Artis Center is located in the headline-grabbing Solaris Center located in the center of Tallinn.

More information on the film schedule can be seen on here.

— Baltic Reports editor Nathan Greenhalgh contributed to this article. [/private_subscription 1 year]

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