THE PIT

By Dace PUCE

TVCO - as SALES All rights, World

Thriller - Completed 2020

When ten years old boy ends up teaching a neighbor girl a cruel lesson, he shunned by the small town community and forms an alliance with a transgender man to learn what it truly means to be different.

Festivals
& Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2020
Baltic Competition
Nordische Filmatage Lubeck 2020
Best Feature Film
Santa Barbara IFF 2020
Official Selection
Jeonju Int'l FF 2021
Cinemafest
Shanghai International Festival 2021
Fajr International Film Festival 2021
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Drama
    • Countries
    • FINLAND, LATVIA
    • Languages
    • LATVIAN
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Dace PUCE
    • Writer(s)
    • Pēteris ROZĪTIS, Monta GĀGANE, Dace PUCE
    • Producer(s)
    • Kristele PUDANE (MARANA PRODUCTIONS), Klaus HEYDEMANN (INLAND FILM COMPANY)
    • Synopsis
    • Markuss must adapt to a new life living with his granny in the countryside. After Emīlija – a neighbor’s daughter - throws some contemptuous remarks about the boy’s father, Markuss decides to teach her a cruel lesson.
      This has severely negative consequences which resonate throughout the village. Forced to work the boy begins to harbor hatred towards the others in the village.
      The only person the boy can relate to is an old Sailor living in the nearby woods. They inspire one another and keep each other’s secrets. It is only through an accidental turn of events that Emīlija’s mother’s intended sanctions against Markuss and the boy’s reputation in the eyes of the inhabitants of the village radically change.