Baltic Short Film Competition programme „New Baltic Cinema“

Fake Me a Happy New Year

35 min. | Drama | N/A

Anita and her two children, daughter Santa and son Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga in Latvia. Every year they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma and uncle Peter. As the years go by, the children grow up and life goes on, presidents give their New Year’s addresses, and The Irony of Fate is on TV again. Twelve years of birth, death, joy, hatred and potato salad - four evenings in the life of a family and in that of a nation from 1999 to 2012.

Languages
Latvian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Četri mielasti
Produced
2013: Latvia