Lauris Dzelzītis

An aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.

A story about Emīlija Benjamiņa, the “queen of the press” in interwar Latvia, whose wealth and tragic fate have since become folklore. The film’s ...

Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation ...