Vol. 27 (2025): Culture Crossroads

At the core of the special issue of the journal Culture Crossroads are the papers presented at the IX Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference Exploring the Past and Future of Audiovisual Media in the Baltic Sea Region: Archives, Digital Platforms, Researchers and Spectators that took place in Riga on 6–8 June 2024. The conference was organized by the Latvian Academy of Culture, Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, and LAC Riga Film Museum in cooperation with the Film Archive of the Estonian National Archives, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, as well as media education and research centre Meno avilys. The conference had a dual, in terrelated focus: the histories of audiovisual collections with in the region, and the bur-geoning impact of digital technologies on facilitating access to these collections. In the wake of digital technologies, films from diverse historical periods and regions, as well as contemporary cinema have become globally accessible to an unprecedented extent.