
81 Metrs - 81 mètres
Réalisation
Jānis ĀBELE
Spring, 2021. A cinephile invites us on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay shot on super 8mm opens the locked doors to the cinema houses during perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space.
Réalisé par
Jānis ĀBELE
Narrateur
Jānis ĀBELE & Jana HERBSTA
Photographie
Toms ŠĶĒLE
Montage
Madara DIDRIHSONE
Son
Ernests ANSONS
Production
Chaland Films
Janis ABELE (Chaland Films)
Dita BIRKENŠTEINA (Chaland Films)
Dita BIRKENŠTEINA (Chaland Films)
Réalisé par
Jānis ĀBELE
Jānis ĀBELE (1990) is a Riga and Paris based filmmaker and screenwriter. His graduation film “Six Feet Above” (2014) was awarded with Grand Prix at 33rd International Short Film Festival “Tous Courts” in France, which served as a foundation for his feature debut “7 Billion Years Before The End of The World” (2018). His second feature film “Jelgava ’94” (2019) premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019 and won 4 national film awards “Lielais Kristaps”, including for Best Director in 2019. In 2022 Janis Abele released a documentary short “81 Meters” which premiered at BELDOCS (Serbia) and currently is traveling its festival circuit in competition programmes. “The Last Will” is Janis Abele’s first documentary feature-film.