THE EXALTED
[CILDENIE]
Anna, a renowned German organist, is contemplating having a baby with her husband, Andris, a Latvian businessman. Arriving back in Latvia for a birthday weekend celebration with friends and family, Anna finds her picturesque life swiftly upended when Andris is arrested at the airport and brought in for questioning under charges of corruption and bribery. After he is released from custody, she and Andris decide to proceed as planned with the party while hiding the scandal from the attendees including a visiting journalist, a local priest and a wild-child stepdaughter. Deftly juggling drama and its ticking time-bomb premise, director Juris Krsietis’s (OLEG, AFI European Union Film Showcase 2019) THE EXALTED is a tense study in trying to keep one’s life in stasis even as it quickly approaches freefall. – Eli Prysant
DIR/SCR Juris Kursietis; SCR Liga Celma-Kursiete; PROD Vicky Miha, Evelin Penttilä, Alise Ģelze, Johanna Maria Paulson. Latvia/Estonia/Greece, 2024, color, 98 min. In English, Latvian and German with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, December 13, 2025
Genre: Drama
