FILM TITLE
January
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22nd March 2023 | 06:30 PM
Stein Auditorium
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Synopsis
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.
“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 enjoying 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 resistance through the construction of barricades and human shields becomes the defining moment in their coming-of-age.
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Cast
Kārlis Arnolds Avots, Alise Danovska, Baiba Broka, Aleksas Kazanavicius, Juhan Ulfsak, Sandis Runge
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Producer
Inese Boka-Grübe, Gints Grübe
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Screenplay
Viesturs Kairiss, co-writers Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman
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Cinematography
Wojciech Staroń, PSC
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Editing
Armands Začs
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Sound
Jonas Maksvytis
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Music
Justė Janulytė