SOVIET MILK
Director: Ināra Kolmane
Feature film | Latvia , Belgium | 2023
112 min | Dolby 5.1
57th Hof International Film Festival
2023
In her conflict with the totalitarian regime, Astra, an ambitious doctor, loses literally everything: her career, her will to live, even her maternal instinct to nurse her own baby. Daughter Nora nevertheless becomes Astra’s greatest support, and in the process she learns to survive even in the repressive system of the Soviet regime. Together with her intersexual friend, Jesse, Nora helps Astra fight her depression.
With Elīna Vaska-Botere, Maija Doveika, Rūta Kronberga
Screenplay Arvis Kolmanis, Cinematography Rolandas Leonavičius, Editing Michal Lansky, Sound Arturas Pugačiauskas, Music Raimonds Tiguls, Production Jānis Juhņēvičs, Cloé Garbay