Time Indefinite

Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine, McElwee turns on the camera to film life as it happens in respect to this new phase in his life.

The Q&A with the director will be led by a film director Staņislavs Tokalovs.

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.