How does one handle a film, which so strikingly resembles human memory, in particular traumatic memory? The Baltic states have had a tumultuous history, most of which isn't known in the world, let alone in Europe, even though the region is so essential to our identity as a continent. Estonia's Martti Helde depicted mass deportations under Soviet occupation in In the Crosswinds, a . . .

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