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LATVIAN COYOTE

VALKĀTĀJS

By Ivars ZVIEDRIS

TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Social issues - Completed 2020

Somewhere in a forest by the eastern border of the European Union, illegal immigrants meet a local resident Pepe in the middle of the night. Is this a coincidence or a diligently crafted plan?

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- LATVIA
- Languages
- LATVIAN, ENGLISH, VIETNAMESE
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Ivars ZVIEDRIS
- Producer(s)
- Marta BITE (Documentarian), Ivars ZVIEDRIS (Documentarian)
- Synopsis
- An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border. It is a game with no winner – all participants are driven to play by the sense of despair. While one side leaves home and undertakes a perilous journey to the other side of the globe, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in a free country, the other side risks their freedom to earn a chance to stay right where they are, in their homeland.
  *coyote – someone who smuggles illegal immigrants