Film

Black Velvet

2024 · 1h 31m · Drama

An insecure millennial woman pursues her dream whilst learning how to adult. While being preoccupied with life tasks at hand she can barely handle and also severe depression, main character of this film Marta (30) keeps dreaming about making films, drawn to the healing power of storytelling, but not having the courage to act these dreams out; sometimes she is too scared to even pick up the phone. Marta’s life seems to sway both in comic and tragic directions: it’s sometimes a mix of ultimate freedom, sex, drugs, friendship, laughter, alcohol, lots of alcohol, music, honesty and love, and sometimes the reality Marta avoids to face becomes so brutal she can’t take it anymore. Through the course of the film Marta learns there is an unavoidable question that at some point becomes inevitable for almost every filmmaker: if you really want to direct films, can you first direct yourself out of depression?

Inga Tropa

Marta

Gatis Ungurs

Kaspars Beķeris

Baiba Broka

Iveta Pole

Sabīne Tīkmane

Ivars Krasts

Kasparas Varanavičius

Inga Apine

Aleksas Kazanavičius

Igors Šelegovskis

Ģirts Krūmiņš

• Liene LindeWriter · Director
• Guntis TrekterisProducer
• Dāvids SmiltiņšDirector of Photography
• Ieva VeiverytėEditor

Release date

February 23, 2024

Status

Released

Original language

Latvian

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

N-16

Genres

Drama