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JANUARY

JANVĀRIS

By Viesturs KAIRIŠS

Drama - Completed 2022

It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into
chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover
of power in his country.

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Tribeca FF 2022

Best International Narrative

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- LATVIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND
- Languages
- LATVIAN, RUSSIAN, LITHUANIAN
- Duration
- 95 mn
- 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)
- Synopsis
- «January” is an autobiographical take on the political upheaval in the early 1990s that changed the lives
  of 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 the
  collapse 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.

JANUARY

JANVĀRIS

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