Three months later, a man in his twenties knocked on the studio door. He had a scar along his chin and a nervousness like a cough. In his coat pocket was another photograph—this one of a hand holding an amber bead, sunlit, edges smoothed by many years. He had been living in a small town on the Gulf for years, he said. He’d seen Baltic Sun at a community screening. The boy on the ferry—Misha—was him. He wanted to meet the woman in the audience who had said his name.
, this short film captures a specific cultural shift as citizens explored personal freedoms previously restricted by the state. Exploring Personal Freedom baltic sun at st petersburg 2003 documentary top
