Film evening schools for newcomers of Latvia

If you have been living in Latvia recently, you want to get to know this country better and watch one of the specially selected Latvian films in a good company, as well as participate in a discussion about the film over a cup of tea, we invite you to a screening of the documentary "Ručs un Norie". 

Time: Thursday, January 13, at 18.00

Venue: Cinema K Suns, Elizabetes iela 83/85, Riga

Local residents are also invited to participate in the film evening school to help newcomers better understand and feel the Latvian cultural space.

Admission to the Film Evening School is free. Before the film there will be an introduction and a few words about the plot but after the screening: an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the film.

The cinema evening will take place in Green Mode (Zaļajā režīmā), which means that people with Covid-19 vaccination certificates or disease certificates will be able to attend the event.

It is mandatory to register for the event here:

 https://forms.gle/1gAmRzn9KAZbmGss9

Ručs un Norie. Documentary, Latvia, 2015.

Director: Ināra Kolmane

Ručs un Norie is a story about the encounter of two exotic worlds that create a striking emotional and spiritual relationship. Norie Tsuruta, a master's student in anthropology from Japan, is coming to Latvia to study and write her master's thesis on the Suiti region. Here she meets one of the oldest Suiti wives, Marija Steimane, called Ruča, who does not know a word of English, but sings. Norie learns Latvian language and songs. And anthropological interest is gradually turning into the closeness of the true spirit, which does not go out even when Norie is forced to return to Japan. In the future, Latvia and Japan are bound by an invisible and very personal thread - Ruča is worried about Norie "there, in the distance" and worried about every earthquake in Japan. But Norie calls Ruča her Latvian grandmother, wants to return and in her homeland goes to watch football in Latvian national costume and together with her friends calls: "Sarauj, Latvia!".

Film in Latvian (with English subtitles)

“Film evening schools for newcomers to Latvia” are organized within the project “Codes of Latvian History and Contemporary Culture” (LV - LKK) *

* The project “Codes of Latvian History and Contemporary Culture” (LV - LKK) is a project of LLMC integration content, in which we promote the inclusion of newcomers to the current processes of Latvian culture, art and society with the help of various events based on contemporary culture.