FILM TITLE

January

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22nd March 2023 | 06:30 PM
Stein Auditorium

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Country
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
Genre

Drama

Language
Latvian
Duration
94 mins
Director

Viesturs Kairiss

Festival And Awards

Tribeca Film Festival 2022  -Winner Best International Narrative Feature; Warsaw Film Festival 2022 -  Winner Best Director; Rome Film Festival 2022 - Winner Best Film/ Best Director/ Best Actor; Ankara Film Festival 2022; Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022
 

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.

  • Cast

    Kārlis Arnolds Avots, Alise Danovska, Baiba Broka, Aleksas Kazanavicius, Juhan Ulfsak, Sandis Runge

  • Producer

    Inese Boka-Grübe, Gints Grübe

  • Screenplay

    Viesturs Kairiss, co-writers Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman

  • Cinematography

    Wojciech Staroń, PSC

  • Editing

    Armands Začs

  • Sound

    Jonas Maksvytis

  • Music

    Justė Janulytė