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Janis Vingris

Latvia | 2003 | 35mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

  Tuesday 14th | 11.30am | Kino Cinema

He is not a sleepwalker. He is not a reckless adventurer. Or a madman. Or a bird! There are things he may lose. He has a big family - sons, a wife, dogs, a house, a job. But Eriks Rugens, the centre of this film, has a courageous dream that has become a reality.

He has managed to overcome the natural human fear of height. He can climb roofs. It is his hobby and work to be closer to the sky, on the spires of churches, on top of the high-rises. From where he looks at the daily and street life with different eyes. He has a peculiar sense of humour, he seems an odd fish to many. Janis Vingris brings a story about the man who lives by his free will and therefore, is sometimes not a convenient person to others, yet loyal to his calling. Which is to be up there. To be higher.

Audience Award - Bochumer Video Festival

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