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The Invisible City

This is a story about a city that was built as a paradise, but then turned into a hell – a city that is now becoming a paradise once again, just in a different way. Igor has been living in the Chernobyl Zone for almost ten years, looking for peace and a chance to escape modern civilization. Psychological issues, both personal and global, still trouble him, and he embodies both a sense of harmonising peace and supernatural stress. And an existential secret – the secret of the essence of life. He is surrounded by the elderly inhabitants of Chernobyl, living in villages entirely overcome by nature, where they lead their unrealistic ‘Atlantean’ lives – from which even the war in Ukraine seems to be happening on another planet.

Viestur Kairish

Viestur Kairish was born in 1971 in Riga. He graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture as a theatre and film director.

Selected Filmography

Chronicles of Melany / Melānijas Hronikas (in production)
Pelican in the Desert / Pelikāns tuksnesī (2013)
Olympic Man / Loengrīns no Varka Kru (2009)
The Dark Deer / Tumšie brieži (2006)

 

Film sessions

09.22 Tuesday
  • Skalvija (Vilnius) 16:50


Information

Director and Scriptwriter: Viestur Kairish
Cinematography: Gints Berzins, Andrejs Rudzats
Music: Rimskis Korsakovs
Sound: Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis
Editing: Andra Dorss
Producer: Guntis Trekteris
Production: Ego Media
Latvia, 2014, 68’