The premiere will take place at the Splendid Palace cinema, and at the same time as the premiere throughout Latvia, the film will be available both in the largest regional cinemas and in smaller Latvian cinema screenings.
The film is a criminal drama that tells about the events of one night in the life of a new taxi driver Marek (Edgars Ozoliņš). To support his son, Marek works as a taxi driver at night. The money Marek owes the boss for the crashed car is stolen from his car. He has to make up for what he has lost as soon as possible, so in the hope of finding profitable customers, he goes to the airport and goes around Riga hotels. Marek ignores the unwritten rules of the taxi world, which upset the delicate balance between competing taxi companies. As morning approaches, stolen money is no longer his biggest problem.
The film tells about the generation of the main character, who was born shortly before Latvia’s independence, experienced the restoration of independence and its growth during the changes of the 1990s, when everyone could and tried to become something else. The idea of the film “Change” encompasses a broader description of the generation, showing how generations grown up at different times have chosen to live in the new social environment in a particular social environment, making them think about personal choices in crisis situations and the crisis of moral values in society.
The director of the film is Reinis Kalviņš, for whom this will be his debut film. During his studies, Reinis made short films “He took a bottle, but left a girl,” “Blackout” and “Coffee and cigarettes.” Reinis Kalviņš received his film education at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn (2014) and supplemented his knowledge in master’s studies at the University of Sarajevo’s Bela Tarr Film Factory program (2016). He worked as a producer of the film “1906”, was the executive producer of the Finnish feature film “The Hatching” shot in Latvia (2019). With the film “Change”, Reinis will be announced as one of the representatives of the new author’s cinema in Latvian “new wave” cinema, offering the Latvian viewer a fresh cinematic language and stylistic solution and thus promoting the diversity of Latvian film genres.
“The idea for the film came to me while I was still living in Sarajevo, where I sometimes got to travel in illegal taxis. At the same time, headlines appeared in the Latvian media about the mutual settlement of taxi drivers in Riga and the division of territories for receiving passengers at the airport. At first, it sounded almost unbelievable that such a bubble still exists in Riga at the beginning of the 21st century, which has not been affected by change and where the principles of the 1990s actually prevail. It seemed interesting to go on an atmospheric one-night ride through the city from this point of view. In its message, the film is an oasis for the part of the city that taxi drivers face, but which is not particularly open to the outside, ”says the film’s director Reinis Kalviņš.
The cinematographer of the film is Georgian Chipers-Lilemarks, the screenplay was written by Reinis Kalviņš and Aldis Bukšs, the editing director is Armands Začs, the sound director is Artis Dukaļskis, the film artist is Jānis Bijubens, the make-up artist is Maija Gundare, executive producer of the film – Ilze Krūmiņliepa, director of the selection of actors – Māra Liniņa, producer of the film – Gints Grūbe. The main role in the film is played by actor Edgars Ozoliņš, who has been an actor at the Liepāja Theater since 2009. Edgar has previously starred in Russian feature films “From Five to Seven” (dir. Alexander Kasatkin), “Quest” (dir. Andrei Zagidulin) and “Heritage” (dir. Vladimir Shegolkov).
It is a great pleasure that with Reinis Kalviņš’s debut feature film “Change” we can invite Latvian viewers to the cinema again after a long silence, and a double joy that we can do it with the new director’s first film, which is a story about the allegedly invisible criminal side of modern Riga. , but about whose mutual struggles we can read in the news on portals and newspapers on a daily basis. The plot of the film is borrowed from real Latvian taxi drivers’ stories and documentary events. Only a few years ago, 80% of the taxi business was in the gray area, and real taxi drivers’ stories about their daily lives were used to create the film’s script, ”said Gints Grūbe, the film’s producer.
The film studio Mistrus Media has made such award-winning and internationally recognized Latvian feature films as Viesturs Kairiss’s “Chronicle of Melania”, Dāvis Sīmanis’ “Father’s Night”, debut feature films “Film” (dir. Ivo Briedis) and “Eva” (dir. Kristiāns Riekstiņš). ). Currently, the studio is working on the shooting of Aika Karapetjan’s new feature film “Sema ceļojumi” and the preparation of Viesturs Kairiss’s feature film “January”. In the autumn, premieres are expected for the co-production of Mistrus Media – Alexei Ucitel’s film “Coy” and Sharun Barta’s film “At Twilight”, which was included in the official program of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
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