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    Black Velvet

    91'

    2024-02-23

    9

    Drama

    Overview:

    An insecure millennial woman pursues her dream whilst learning how to adult. While being preoccupied with life tasks at hand she can barely handle and also severe depression, main character of this film Marta (30) keeps dreaming about making films, drawn to the healing power of storytelling, but not having the courage to act these dreams out; sometimes she is too scared to even pick up the phone. Marta’s life seems to sway both in comic and tragic directions: it’s sometimes a mix of ultimate freedom, sex, drugs, friendship, laughter, alcohol, lots of alcohol, music, honesty and love, and sometimes the reality Marta avoids to face becomes so brutal she can’t take it anymore. Through the course of the film Marta learns there is an unavoidable question that at some point becomes inevitable for almost every filmmaker: if you really want to direct films, can you first direct yourself out of depression?

    WritingLiene LindeDirectingLiene Linde

    Cast

    1

    Marta

    Inga Tropa

    1

    Gatis Ungurs

    1

    Kaspars Beķeris

    1

    Baiba Broka

    1

    Iveta Pole

    1

    Sabīne Tīkmane

    1

    Ivars Krasts

    1

    Kasparas Varanavičius

    1

    Inga Apine

    1

    Aleksas Kazanavičius

    1

    Igors Šelegovskis

    1

    Ģirts Krūmiņš

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. Latvia
      2. Lithuania
    • List of languages:
      1. Latvian
    • List of companies:
      1. Ego Media
      2. Tremora
    • Vote Count: 1
    • Popularity: 0.2629
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Melnais samts

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