How the Baltics Are Juggling a Boom in Foreign Productions Like ‘Woman Unknown’ With a Lack of Public Funds

Nov 13, 2026 1:15am PT How the Baltics Are Juggling a Boom in Foreign Productions Like ‘Woman Unknown’ With a Lack of Public Funds

Mega projects shot in the Baltics also take in Apple TV’s ‘Star City’ and Cary Fukunaga’s upcoming ‘Blood on Snow’

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Mid-October, Estonia’s long-awaited next-gen film studio complex Ida Hub, in the country’s eastern region, finally opened for business, and industry guests at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival are invited to tour the facilities Nov. 21-22.

As stressed by Edith Sepp, head of the Estonian Film Institute, the country’s brand-new studio powerhouse, twinned with the Tallinnfilm Studios sound stages planned for 2028, heralds “a whole new era of filmmaking” for Estonia, which has patiently waited to rebuild its film infrastructure from post-Soviet rubble. It took Hollywood and Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” to put the smallest Baltic country on the global production map in 2019.

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