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A young woman in Stalin-era Riga joins a basketball team, hoping that she will be allowed to travel abroad and see her brother who's living in exile.
Acting
Budovska's restrained desperation says everything.
Direction
Dreibergs turns basketball games into existential dread.
Production
Period-perfect Riga that feels suffocatingly real.

Director
Dzintars Dreibergs
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