Competition Programme  

Vera Mukhina, born in Riga, went to Paris in 1912 to study under Rodin’s pupil Bourdelle. Her monumental, 53 meter-high sculptural ensemble Worker and Peasant Woman, weighing 75 tons, becomes a sensation at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris. Picasso expresses great enthusiasm for Mukhina’s work. She truly believes in humanist ideals, and this is successfully used by the USSR propaganda machine. The film is a diary about an artist’s relations with the state, herself and her work – a theme that reaches over the boundaries of time.

Festivals

International Film Festival “Baltijos banga”, Lithuania (2010)

Ilona Brūvere

In 1975-1979, she studied journalism and film acting at the University of Latvia. In 1979 she emigrated to Germany where she lived and worked till 1989. In 1986 in Hamburg she received an award from the Ministry of Culture for her theatrical adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s novel Love. Since 1990 she works as a director, editor, author and screenwriter at the Riga Documentary Film Studio and Latvian Television, the latter nominating her as the best author/director and producer of the feature films and cultural programs. She owns the film production company Kinolat established in 1997.

Selected Filmography

In Bed with Surrealism. Augusts Sukuts / Sirreālisma gultā. Augusts Sukuts (2007)
My World – Paris, London, Berlin, Roma / Mana pasaule – Parīze, Londona, Berlīne, Roma (2002)
Seven Tricks / 7 triki (1994)
The Market Day / Tirgus diena (1989)
He and She. Memories / Viņš un viņa (1985)