The Last Day of School

The Last Day of School

20140h 26m

Documentary

Overview

After receiving an edict from the municipal authorities about the closing of their school, the students at Mežvidi primary school continue to attend lessons and exercise creativity and fun, but it’s all clouded in a sense of fatality. They aren’t many students, and because of that the school resembles a large family rather than an institution. Near the Russian border, deep in the Latgale region, this place will become a nowhere-land once the youth depart. In an intimate message about a national problem, the story focuses on three sisters for whom life is about to drastically change. Through their daily lives and small adventures we try to understand the real meaning of the contention that “the countryside is dying”. And we see hope.

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Lords of Riga
To Be Beautiful
David and Goliath
Sencis: Old Man
In the Middle
Residents
Trillium
The Inked Family
Talkers
Short Day
Dinārs
Mr Black Stork
Lone Man
Grandfather's Father
Therapy
Wordsmiths
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