JANUARY

By Viesturs KAIRISS

THE YELLOW AFFAIR - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2022

It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis's whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people's peaceful protests against the Soviet Army's attempted takeover of power in his country.

Festivals
& Awards

Les Arcs Film Festival 2022
Oscar on skis
Tribeca FF 2022
Official Selection- International Narrative Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • LATVIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND
    • Languages
    • LATVIAN
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Viesturs KAIRISS
    • Writer(s)
    • Viesturs KAIRISS, Andris FELDMANIS, Livia ULMAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Inese BOKA-GRÜBE (Mistrus Media), Gints GRÜBE (Mistrus Media)
    • Synopsis
    • It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.

      “January” is an autobiographical take on the political upheaval in the early 1990s that changed the lives of the people of the former Soviet Union. Jazis and his friends Anna and Zeps are all aspiring filmmakers, trying to pursue their dreams of making movies and enjoying the freedom of young adulthood, when the collapse of the political system in the region upends their plans, family ties and friendship. Their experience and participation in the nonviolent resistance through the construction of barricades and human shields becomes the defining moment in their coming-of-age.