Gauja Twice in the River

A film documenting contemporary Latvian reality along the banks of the river Gauja while channelling one of the first Latvian sound documentary films Gauja 1934 Along with producers Sandijs Semjonovs and Gundars Rēders and editor Atis Klimovičs we witnessed incidents and events along the banks of the river some 80 years later We captured them along with the views of folks on this river in a documentally poetic style reflecting the reality in Latvia explains director Mārtiņš Grauds