In 1986 Juris Podnieks released Vai Viegli Būt Jaunam, a documentary probing lives of young people in Soviet Latvia, and already at that time he intended to to a follow-up ten years later. Unfortunately, in 1992 Podnieks died in a diving accident...so Antra Cilinska took over his project, looked for the young people from original documentary and made new one which tries to tak...
Annia (28) lives in Riga and always is in a process and finding her own way, expressing herself in multiple roles. She works as a show manager at The New Riga Theatre, but later she needs to find out how to be unemployed. She teaches tap dance in her own studio, and a great part of her life is to be Dr. Clown in Children’s clinical hospital
The camera stands in a house, the lens pointing through the window, outdoors, where the occupants of the home are standing. They respond patiently to the camera operator’s directions: a small step to the left, a little bit forward, no, back just a bit, yes, that’s perfect. Dozens of people pose in this way for a full minute. There’s a man who lives alone, a large family, an old...
The film is about how everything changes while remaining the same, or rather how everything remains the same by changing. It uses all the basic elements of film language - image, sound, light, movement (or non-movement), editing rhythm and pauses and all those things a man never thinks about walking along a country road.
博尔赫斯曾说：“如果有天堂，天堂应该是图书馆的模样。”而对于一年在百老汇看500部剧的尼基考克安尼来说，天堂则是剧院的模样。40遍《猫》，10遍《长夜漫漫路迢迢》， 她对百老汇上演的一切戏剧耳熟能详。她一边说着“生活就是戏剧（Life is theater）”，一边让自己生活在戏剧中（Life in theater），而电影也采取了这样的拍摄方式，将百老汇戏剧影像与她的人生经历相结合、相对应，让戏剧像镜子一般映照出她的一生。
