The Invisible City

Year
2014
Country
Latvia
Duration
68’
Director
Viesturs Kairišs

Ihor, 30 years old, has been living in the zone of Chornobyl for almost ten years. He wanted to find peace and a chance to escape from modern civilization. Psychological issues, both personal and global, are still troubling him. He embodies both harmonizing peace and supernatural stress. And also, an existential secret. A secret of the essence of life. He is surrounded by the elderly inhabitants of Chornobyl who live in villages entirely overcome by nature. They lead their own unrealistic, Atlantean life, and even the war in Ukraine seems to be happening on another planet for them.

Production and Sales
Ego Media, Guntis Trekteris, Baznicas iela 8-3, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia, +37129219373, [email protected], www.egomedia.lv
Awards
2015 – The jury special prize of Annual International Film Festival LET’S CEE (Austria)
Director
Viesturs Kairišs

Viesturs Kairišs was born in 1971 in Riga, Latvia. He graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture as a theatre and film director and upon graduation started working as a resident stage director at The New Riga Theatre.

Selected Filmography

Selected: Kāzas (2000), Pa ceļam aizejot (2001), Romeo un Džulijeta (2004), Tumšie brieži (2006), Loengrīns no Varka Kru (2009), Pelikāns tuksnesī (2013)

Cinema House, Blue Hall
Cinema House
vul. Saksahanskoho, 6
Q&A with director
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
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SPECIAL SCREENING
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
Year
2017
Country
Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic
Director
Askold Kurov
Duration
70’
SPECIAL SCREENING
Heaven's Border
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Heaven's Border
Year
2016
Country
South Korea
Director
Hark-Joon Lee
Duration
70'’
SPECIAL SCREENING
Presentation of the Chornobyl [IN]visible DVD
SPECIAL SCREENING
Presentation of the Chornobyl [IN]visible DVD
SPECIAL SCREENING
Jamala’s struggle
SPECIAL SCREENING
Jamala’s struggle
Year
2017
Country
Sweden
Director
Elin Jönsson
Duration
29’
SPECIAL SCREENING