Festivāls VIA BALTICA/ Filma Knutifikācija

Thursday, 23^rd of August, Chamber hall of Liepaja Latvians Society House, 17:00. English subtitles.

Documentary film “Knutifiction”

Director and author of screenplay Ivars Tontegode, 100’, Latvia, 2017.

A young Soviet poet Knuts Skujenieks after returning from his studies in the Soviet Union’s metropolis Moscow to his provincial homeland Soviet Latvia – one of the 15 Soviet republics, he faced stagnation. As a warning to other free-minded persons he was imprisoned for 7 years in Gulag. But, despite KGB plans, he returned from Gulag more creative and undesirable for the existing system. He continues to be like that until today, even now in his 80s.

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Festival VIA BALTICA:

For the 8^th year musicians and artists from all around the Baltic States will meet at the festival “Via Baltica”. Through their art they will speak about the freedom of all three Baltic States, their independence and the road of its complicated and dramatic restoration in concerts, theatre plays, film screenings and a documentary exhibition.

Every year in August, around the remembrance day of the important and historic Baltic Way, the festival gathers audience of thousands to its different cultural events.

In 2018 the festival will be held from 3^rd to 25^th of August in three beautiful cities of Latvia – Liepaja, Kuldiga and Rudbarzi. This year’s festival will consist of chamber and jazz music concerts performed by Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian artists; biographical theatre play “My Magadan” by actor and director Eriks Vilsons; photo exhibition about children of deportations of the 14^th June, 1941; four documentary films about people and events important for the Independence of Latvia – author of the Freedom Monument Karlis Zale, the unbreakable spirit poet Knuts Skujenieks, tradition of the Latvian Song Celebration and stories of the “Children of Siberia”. Festival will end on the beach of Liepaja where we will hear poetry of the famous Latvian poet Aspazija in sounds of jazz. This is the Night of Ancient Bonfires when many places along the coastline of the Baltic Sea light a bonfire to honor the Baltic Sea.

Student and senior discounts are available. Free admission to children under the age of 7.

Further information at www.viacultura.lv and twitter.com/ViaCulturaLV, facebook.com.

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Vēl festivāla filmu programmā: 
- 24.aug. plkst.17:20 dokumentālā filma "Dziesmuvara";
- 24.aug. plkst. 18:30 dokumentālā spēlfilma "Ievainotais jātnieks"

Festivālā VIA BALTICA - festival jau vairākus gadus satiekas mūziķi un mākslinieki no visām Baltijas valstīm. Katru gadu augustā, kad tiek pieminēta Baltijas valstu brīvībai tik nozīmīgā akcija “Baltijas ceļš”, festivāls pulcē vairākus tūkstošus lielu auditoriju koncertos, izstādēs un citos pasākumos gan Liepājā, gan Kuldīgā un šogad arī Rudbāržos.

Festivāls notiek ar Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonda, Liepājas un Kuldīgas novada domes finansiālu atbalstu. Plašāka informācija pieejama interneta vietnē www.viacultura.lv, kā arī sociālajos portālos twitter.com/via_baltica un facebook.com.