MATIN DANS UNE FORET DE PINS (Morning In The Pine Forest) 16 mm., colour, 110 minutes, in Latvian with English subtitles, 1998.
The lives of six young people unfold in a journey through different worlds revealed and interwoven, where the boundaries between documentary and fiction, reality and dream cease to exist. The volatile and seductive landscape of urban and rural Latvia was treated as a rich context for the complex relationships one has with the world - inviting the viewer to come upon the questions that bind us in our common need to understand our humanness. This film is based on the lives of HELENA, EVA, JANKA, GUNTIS, ANNA and GALC.
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS/WRITERS/EDITORS: Mra Ravins & Janis Kalejs. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Gints Berzins. SOUND DESIGN: Bruno Degazio MUSIC: Karl Mohr, Helena K., HMP, Tafelmusik.
Montreal World Film Festival, Cinema of Tomorrow: New Trends, Canada 1998. (In the Telefilm competition for Best Canadian Film)
Riga “Arsenals” International Film Festival, Latvia 1998.
“Andaluzijas Suns” Kinoteatris, Riga, Latvia, theatrical run, October, 1998.
Cinematheque & John Spotton Theater, Toronto, theatrical run, November, 1998
Balticum Film & TV Festival, Bornholm, Sweden, Official Selection Competition, June 1999.
Marseille International Doc Film Festival, France, Official Selection Competition, June
St. Petersburg “Message to Man” Documentary Film Festival, Russia, June 1999.
Encontros Internacionais de Cinema, Portugal, November 1999. (special Jury award)
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