World premiere
Taurins Senior
Prolific Latvian filmmaker Alexander Hahn returns to Riga to look after his ill Father. Instead of documenting his prolonged stay, he creates a sarcastically fictionalised and hard-to-define personal rollercoaster film, constructed from home videos, reinvented moments, funny improvisations, bright memories, social media interventions, and occasional observational footage accompanied by a written monologue. Real-life situations blend into scripted scenes and wicked interpretations in this snappy comical family diary.
Stubborn and grumpy ailing Talivaldis expected son Gunars to arrive only to his funeral. One day the cynical father wishes to look for the right way to the cemetery. Gunars aims to prove that he’ll be alright and asks massage therapist Maria to pretend to be his loving girlfriend.
Edvinas Pukšta
Alexander Hahn (1967) left the Soviet Union with his parents and his family, when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Bavaria, Germany. Alexander attended a language school in Munich for a year. After two unsuccessful applications at the film school in Munich, he finally became a student at the Vienna Film Academy, where he graduated in 1996. His first feature film "Far Away From St. Petersburg" received 1993 the Gold Special Jury Award at the Houston International Film Festival and was shown at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles. He is a proud father of two sons, Daniel (21) and Maximilian (16), who live in Latvia.
Filmography:
valik/selected: Far Away from St. Petersburg (1992), The Last Soviet Movie (2003), Midsummer Madness (2007), Monsieur Taurins (2011). Taurins Senior (2023)
Award for Best Baltic Film, grant of 5000€ from Piletilevi
