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Get immersed in 21st century farming in Latvia, accompanied by the narration of one of the most iconic directors today.
SYNOPSIS
Through six very different families, the documentary “The Land” shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions of countryside living as well as illusions about a farmer’s life. But what unites them all – they aspire for the stability provided by their own land and house. Together with our protagonists, we will spend one year’s cycle of a farmer’s life, which will start with the spring sowing and finish with the autumn harvest and land preparation for the next year. These individual stories will draw the landscape of the 21st-century countryside.
World Premiere: IDFA 2022. Masters program
Ivars Seleckis, born in 1934, is Latvian documentary filmmaker and a founder of the legendary Riga School of Poetic Documentary Cinema. Educated as a food technologist, Seleckis began work at the Riga Film Studio in 1958 as a camera assistant, in 1966 he studied cinematography at the Moscow Film Institute, and in 1968 debuted as a documentary film director. His documentaries stand out for their thorough and sophisticated analysis of the social processes. A large number of films by Seleckis can be included in the “golden reserves” of Latvian film history: his film The Crossroad Street (1988) received three of the most prestigious documentary awards in the Europe – EFA award for the Best Documentary, Joris Ivens and Robert Flaherty awards. Seleckis continues to make films.
Just after he finished The Land he started filming the sequel of the 2018 film To be continued.
