On 27 May, the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels will welcome the Latvian film director Dāvis Sīmanis. A screening of two of his latest documentaries will take place in the BOZAR Studio.

The films will be screened in Latvian with English subtitles.

For more information and tickets, please visit the BOZAR webpage.

18:00 Chronicles of the Last Temple (LV, 2012, 58’)
Chronicles of the Last Temple tells a minimalistic, metaphorical story of a building in the making – the Latvian National Library. From the very start of its construction through to the emergence of the library's distinctive silhouette, viewers can watch a visual symphony that evokes the mythological and ritual process by which temples were constructed in the past. Filmmaker Dāvis Sīmanis, quoting American architect Louis Kahn, states: “A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

20:00 Escaping Riga (LV/RUS/UK, 2014, 69’)
Two young boys are forced to escape from their native city of Riga as the First World War turns the world upside down. Later these same boys will be two of the 20th century's most extraordinary figures: one becoming a leading communist film director and the other a mentor to the entire British Empire. Funny, deadly, sad and erotic adventures punctuate their lifelong journeys towards genius. This story reveals the secrets of the remarkably parallel lives of and friendship between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the first half of the 20th century.