Performing and reimagining white "Western" masculinity on the Baltic screen

ENThis article analyses two recent Baltic films, Jaak Kilmi’s The Dissidents (Sangarid, 2017, Estonia) and Romas Zabarauskas’s The Lawyer (Advokatas, 2020, Lithuania), which engage with migration, whiteness, white privilege and their intersection with gender and sexuality in countries that moved from ‘post-Soviet’, to becoming members of the European Union and realigning themselves with (Western) Europeanness. As this realignment often also comes with racial or colonial ideologies, these two films imagine different ways of navigating what this realignment might mean in the Baltic countries in the twenty-first century. Keywords: whiteness, Westernness, masculinity, migration, Baltic cinema.

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