The Invisible City

Year
2014
Country
Latvia
Duration
68’
Director
Viesturs Kairišs

Ihor, 30 years old, has been living in the zone of Chornobyl for almost ten years. He wanted to find peace and a chance to escape from modern civilization. Psychological issues, both personal and global, are still troubling him. He embodies both harmonizing peace and supernatural stress. And also, an existential secret. A secret of the essence of life. He is surrounded by the elderly inhabitants of Chornobyl who live in villages entirely overcome by nature. They lead their own unrealistic, Atlantean life, and even the war in Ukraine seems to be happening on another planet for them.

Production and Sales
Ego Media, Guntis Trekteris, Baznicas iela 8-3, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia, +37129219373, [email protected], www.egomedia.lv
Awards
2015 – The jury special prize of Annual International Film Festival LET’S CEE (Austria)
Director
Viesturs Kairišs

Viesturs Kairišs was born in 1971 in Riga, Latvia. He graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture as a theatre and film director and upon graduation started working as a resident stage director at The New Riga Theatre.

Selected Filmography

Selected: Kāzas (2000), Pa ceļam aizejot (2001), Romeo un Džulijeta (2004), Tumšie brieži (2006), Loengrīns no Varka Kru (2009), Pelikāns tuksnesī (2013)

Cinema House, Blue Hall
Cinema House
vul. Saksahanskoho, 6
Q&A with director
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Year
2014
Country
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Directors
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Duration
113’
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Dovzhenko Centre Presents: The July Storms. Outburst
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Dovzhenko Centre Presents: The July Storms. Outburst
Year
1991
Country
Ukrainian SSR
Directors
Anatolii Karas, Viktor Shkurin
Duration
75’
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E-Team
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E-Team
Year
2014
Country
USA
Directors
Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny
Duration
88’
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Live Power
Year
2016
Country
Ukraine
Director
Dmytro Tiazhlov
Duration
80’
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
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Gang
Year
2015
Country
Belarus
Director
Raisa Mikhailovskaia
Duration
56’
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Dovzhenko Centre Presents: The July Storms. Strike
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Dovzhenko Centre Presents: The July Storms. Strike
Year
1989
Country
Ukrainian SSR
Directors
Anatolii Karas, Viktor Shkurin
Duration
82’
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
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Country
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Director
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