Troubled Minds
Audacious short “Castratus the Boar” (2014) roared the promise that the Abele brothers are here to shake up not only Latvian film industry. Let’s witness a neverending dream of three brave, rebellious and gifted brothers. Prepare yourself for a radical and controversial road trip, which must be experienced only in the cinema. Creative duo Raitis and Lauris and visionary Marcis behind the camera filmed their wounded, intoxicating, sinful, evil, sensitive world without a final script and probably searched for their first feature for long months of production.
True life adventures of their close bipolar friend significantly inspired the indescribable genre-blending dramedy about an eternal feud between two brothers. Robert and Martin just seek to be free and independent while preparing for a contemporary art exhibition. Sleepless, alcoholic and drugged ideas are bound to shock spectators, friends and investors. Disgraced Martin runs away to hide at the farthest edge of the world, but Robert is determined to find him and bring him back to Riga.
This psychedelic inventive film surprises, scares, provokes, divides, shakes, stuns with magic of shamanism, uncovers inner demons. You never saw anything this daring and divisive in films from the Baltic countries. Time is right to enter the mysterious cube of the Abele brothers.
Edvinas Pukšta
Brothers Lauris, Raitis and Marcis are Latvian filmmakers, born and residing in Riga. Lauris obtained a Master’s degree in Audio-Visual Arts (film directing) at Latvian Academy of Culture. Raitis Abele is a clinical psychologist but studied film art at New York Film Academy. Marcis graduated Latvian Culture Academy as D.o.P. and also obtained Masters in Audio-Visual Arts at Latvian Art Academy. Brothers mostly work together as a creative trio dividing various roles of filmmaking and art projects. International success came when Raitis and Lauris co-directed the short "Castratus the Boar" won the Grand Prix at Tampere Short Film Festival in 2015. In 2018 the three brothers together created drama documentary about paganism traditions "Baltic Tribes, Last Pagans of Europe". Besides film, Lauris and Raitis compose music and play in two rock and post-metal bands - Soundarcade and Sonntags Legion.
Brothers Lauris, Raitis and Marcis are Latvian filmmakers, born and residing in Riga. Lauris obtained a Master’s degree in Audio-Visual Arts (film directing) at Latvian Academy of Culture. Raitis Abele is a clinical psychologist but studied film art at New York Film Academy. Marcis graduated Latvian Culture Academy as D.o.P. and also obtained Masters in Audio-Visual Arts at Latvian Art Academy. Brothers mostly work together as a creative trio dividing various roles of filmmaking and art projects. International success came when Raitis and Lauris co-directed the short "Castratus the Boar" won the Grand Prix at Tampere Short Film Festival in 2015. In 2018 the three brothers together created drama documentary about paganism traditions "Baltic Tribes, Last Pagans of Europe". "Troubled Minds" marks their first fiction feature film. Besides film, Lauris and Raitis compose music and play in two rock and post-metal bands - Soundarcade and Sonntags Legion.
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