Shoal / Sēklis | RIGA IFF 2022
SHOAL
https://rigaiff.lv/films-2022/seklis/
Directed by: Toms Harjo
LV,2022
Three contemporary relationships deconstructed. The Red Couple choose to pretend to be harmonious for the last three days of living together – they will know exactly how to confuse the other with harmony and comfort them with fiction. Meanwhile, the Green Couple’s three days are full of uncertainty and nervousness, waiting for the other to reveal themselves. The Yellow Couple, two colleagues, will lose themselves in the workplace romance genre and how not to fall in love.
A sitcom about the romantic feelings of twentysomethings, this debut feature film by New Riga Theater actor and photographer Toms Harjo was shot in Pāvilosta with his fellow students, creating three different scenarios of romantic relationships. The roles are played by actors Jānis Grūtups, Agate Krista, Marta Lovisa Jančevska, Matīss Ozols, Sabīne Tīkmane and Harjo himself, who use both irony and wry documentary observations about their generation.