During  Latvia’s  centennial  year,  15  filmmakers  created  each  his  own  film  portrait  of  a  person  living  in  Latvia  on  the  background  of  centenary  events.  Documentary  2018  combines  these  stories  into  a  unique  poetic  vision  based  on  analogy  with  the  documentary  235  000  000,  a  classic  of  the  Riga  school  of  poetic  documentary  cinema.  This  film  is  an  attempt to make sure whether the codes of the poetic cinema are still relevant and accessible today.

2018

Almost 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union we can observe the return of rhetoric of a strong person of the totalitarian era. Could this be facilitated by the remains of totalitarian subservience in our heads and minds? The Director of the film Ivo Briedis and journalist Rita Ruduša, both born in the USSR, are going on a journey to explore the phenomenon of “Homo Sovieticus” and to discover whether a human being of the totalitarian mindset has specific geographical boundaries.