BILLE

By Ināra KOLMANE

FILM STUDIO DEVINI - as PROD

Family - Completed 2018

An extraordinary and creative little girl attempts to comprehend the confusing adult world in Europe right before the WWII and prove her own value despite the lack of appreciation and love from her mother.

Festivals
& Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2018
Baltic competition
National Film Award of Latvia "Lielais Kristaps" 2018
Best Feature Film
The IMAGO International Award for Best Cinematography for EMERGING YOUNG CINEMATOGRAPHER 2019
Award for Best Cinematography for EMERGING YOUNG CINEMATOGRAPHER
International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Isfahan, Iran 2019
Best Feature Award
Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran 2019
International competition
Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival, Kristiansand, Norway 2019
competitive
ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL - 59th International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Zlin, Czech Republic 2019
Panorama section
Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai, China 2019
Programme “The Road and Belt”, Nominations - Media Choice Award for Film, Media Choice Award for Filmmaker, Audience Choice Award
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Family, Drama, Historical
    • Countries
    • LATVIA, LITHUANIA, CZECH REPUBLIC
    • Languages
    • LATVIAN, ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ināra KOLMANE
    • Writer(s)
    • Arvis KOLMANIS, Evita SNIEDZE
    • Producer(s)
    • Jānis JUHŅĒVIČS (FILM STUDIO DEVINI), Marta ROMANOVA-JĒKABSONE (FILM STUDIO DEVINI), Marta MANNENBACH (FILM STUDIO DEVINI), Dagmar SEDLACKOVA (Master Film ), Michal KRECEK (MAGICLAB), Andrea SHAFFER (MAGICLAB), Kestutis PETRULIS (Studija 2), Arunas STOSKUS (Studija 2)
    • Synopsis
    • An extraordinary and creative little girl attempts to comprehend the confusing adult world in Europe right before the WWII and prove her own value despite the lack of appreciation and love from her mother. Confronted by her mother’s contempt for her, Bille tries to find an escape in her vivid imagination and look for the Dreamland. BILLE is a women-led screen adaptation of the bestselling novel BILLE by a Nobel Prize candidate Vizma Belsevica.