Sherman's March

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.

His most acclaimed film Sherman’s March has won numerous awards and was chosen for its historical significance for preservation by the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

The Q&A with the director will be led by a film producer Uldis Cekulis.

Our special guest for the 11th Riga Pasaules Film Festival will be Ross McElwee, an internationally renowned American documentary filmmaker and Professor of the Practice of Filmmaking at Harvard University. We will have 4 film retrospective with the filmmaker present for Q&As led by Latvian filmmakers.

McElwee learnt documentary cinema at the beginning of the cinéma vérité epoch. His films tackle universal topics such as parenthood, family bonds and generational conflicts, existential questions about life and death, as well as love of moving image - a remedy to loss and death. In the background he tells stories of the American South haunted by the reminiscences of the civil war, Southern pride and conservatism.