LTV premiere of director Paul Ķester’s film “Transfer” / Article / LSM.lv

The documentary film “Transfer” by the new director Paul Ķester will be premiered on Latvian Television on November 17 at 10 pm. The premiere of the film will open the documentary film project “Latvian Code. Latvia Today” organized by Latvian Television This year, viewers will be offered five stories about Latvia in 2020. –

According to the filmmakers, the “Ferry” tells the story of the Līgatne ferry, which from early spring to autumn across the Gauja lifts locals and tourists, as well as accidental passers-by and cars, but sometimes also emptiness. Evidence of the era is revealed in 12 square meters of the ferry: tourists, locals, cars, animals, movers, habits, seasonal everyday life, traditions, holidays, unexpected events.

Life on a small ferry also allows us to capture time – the film follows life on a ferry during a calendar year, thus creating the story of Latvia at the beginning of the 21st century.

“The Līgatne ferry, or what we in the family and the local area simply call a ferry, has been close to me since early childhood. My parents drove from Riga to the nearby country house by train, then the local bus and finally, after a longer walk to the Gauja, moved across it – with me in my armpit and food bags in my hands. In the 1990s, I saw not only gypsies and pedestrians being crossed, but also a Kamaz truck and even a medium-sized bus. The old ferries worked on the ferry, whose wrinkles and skin tone already made them part of this wooden and metal construction. Young people who have earned money during the summer have also worked. It was also my first opportunity to transfer a couple. The slow and seasonal crossing of the Gauja forces a person to “brake” before he gets back on the highway or to the supermarket. The film will allow the viewer to experience both this time and the transformation of human perception, which is very simple in nature – to move over, ”said the film’s director Paul Ķesteris.