Completed - LATVIAN, RUSSIAN, LITHUANIAN - Drama - 95 minutes
It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown intochaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeoverof power in his country.
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Viesturs KAIRIŠS Writer(s) : Andris FELDMANIS, Livia ULMAN Cast : Kārlis Arnolds AVOTS, Aleksas KAZANAVIČIUS, Alise DZENE, Baiba BROKA, Juhan ULFSAK, Sandis RUNGE Producer(s) : Inese BOKA-GRŪBE (Mistrus Media), Gints GRŪBE (Mistrus Media)
«January” is an autobiographical take on the political upheaval in the early 1990s that changed the livesof the people of the former Soviet Union. Jazis and his friends Anna and Zeps are all aspiring filmmakers,trying to pursue their dreams of making movies and enjoy the freedom of young adulthood, when thecollapse of the political system in the region upends their plans, family ties and friendship. Their experience and participation in the nonviolent people’s resistance by construction of barricades and human shields becomes the defining moment in their coming-of-age.
Country(ies) : LATVIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND
Tribeca FF 2022 (Best International Narrative)