The Munich Documentary Film Festival is the largest documentary film festival in Germany and one of the main forums for European documentary cinema, whose beginnings can be traced back to 1985, and since then the festival has developed as a film festival for a wide audience, which in its program pays attention to socially important topics and artistically high-quality documentary cinema.
The festival has highlighted diversity and diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunities as its values, this year special focus is also on the theme of democracy. The program of the 39th festival selected 109 films from 51 different countries and the program was formed from more than 1,300 films submitted to the festival, of which 28 will be world premieres and 51 films will be German premieres. Latvian film at the 39th Munich Documentary Film Festival Patricia is shown in the section Dok.Panorama, which includes innovative documentaries from different countries around the world that stand out with diverse stories and discoveries of the modern world.
The movie Patricia is a long-term documentary observation and tells about the best Latvian skier of all time, Patricija Eidukas, and her family – a father who prepares his daughter for the Olympic Games from a young age, brothers who become her support, about life’s trials, behind the scenes of sports and the willpower of a young woman.
The film’s directors are Dāvids Ernsthreits and Inese Kļava, chief cameraman Normunds Pavlovskis, editing director Inese Kļava, composer Otto Auniņš, sound director Artis Lūsis, producers Elīna Gediņa-Ducena and Gints Grūbe. Films are made in a film studio Mistrus Media and it was made with the support of the National Cinema Center and Latvian Television.
The film premiered in Latvia on March 19 and can still be seen in Latvian cinemas, it is also included in the National Cinema Center’s May 4th cinema marathon and will be shown in cinemas Splendid Palace. The film has already received positive reviews from the audience and positive reviews from critics, it was also nominated for the National Cinema Award. Great Kristaps as the best documentary of the year. In June, it will also be possible to watch the film on the streaming platforms LMT Smart TV, Tet TV+ and Go3, as well as watch Kino Us movie rental.
2024-05-02 07:50:34
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