Consolation

2024

Fiction short

26 min

A young man - Rens arrives to the apartment building in microdistrict. Shutting himself off from the world around him, he settles in one of the apartments in the house, which only has a television and a collection of videotapes. Spending his days in the secluded environment, his only "guests" are the neighbor-woman in the opposite window of the house, the food delivery girl Mon and a dark being whose rare visits are unpredictable and yet closely related to the "burdens" the young man brought with him from the past. Over time, trust and affection for the not- so-talkative food delivery girl grows, and the connection between the apparitions in the apartment and Ren's guests becomes more and more obvious. The real begins to merge with the unreal, the stroboscopic fragmentaryness of consciousness drives Ren into a corner and he is forced to find a solution.

Director and scriptwriter

Ivars Krasts

Cinematographer

Artis Pārups

Art director

Dace Sloka

Costume designer

Elīna Pērkone

Sound designer

Pēteris Pāss

Make up artist

Nadežda Kustova

Editor

Uģis Olte

Producers

Anete Mārtuža

Paula Jansone

Daiga Livčāne

Uldis Cekulis