HOMO NOVUS
dir. by Anna Viduleja, fiction, Film Angels Studio, 122’, 2018
In 1938, a young artist, Juris Upenajs, arrives in Riga to begin his artistic journey amid the city’s bohemian and elite circles.
HOMO NOVUS, based on the novel of the same name by Anšlavs Eglītis, became the most-watched Latvian film in Latvian cinemas in 2018.