Does more mean less?

Once a month, Eriks Baltgalvis, a reclusive Latvian ex-sailor, undergoes the hassle of crossing the border to pick up his Estonian pension. The subject of Riga, Latvia-based Film Studio AVE's doc Borderland, Baltgalvis has witnessed a lot, including World War II and Soviet rule. Now, his own story enters the history books as Borderland competes to become one of the first docs from an East European doc-maker to secure the financial support of the Media Plus program, the European Union's lifeline to the continent's audiovisual industry.