Inga Can Hear / Inga Dzird
Estonia, Latvia / Color / 60' / 2018
16-year old Inga is the only hearing member of a deaf family living in the remote Latvian countryside. Since the age of 7, Inga has been the family’s interpreter in the hearing world. Inga dreams of escaping this role and, after graduation from her rural elementary school, decides to leave her home to attend high school in the nearby city. But she runs into conflict with her classmates and her family starts falling apart. Inga’s dreams seem to have failed. Then, one day, the outside world learns that Inga is actually Edward.
Kaspars Goba
He is a documentary film director and photographer. Has an education in biology, medicine and communications. Since 1996 he has worked as a director, script writer and cinematographer on more than 20 documentaries focusing on social and environmental issues.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Kaspars Goba
- Screenplay: Kaspars Goba
- Cinematography: Kaspars Goba, Lelde Goba, Maris Maskalans
- Editing: Andris Grants
- music: Peteris Pass
- Sound Design: Markko Tidumaa
- Film Cast: Inga Cvetkova
- producer:: Ieva Goba, Kaspars Goba
- original language: Sign Language, Latvian
Filmography
- Mires Uncovered (2013)
- They Were the First (2013)
- HOMO@LV (2010)
- The Sweet City (2010)
- Life in the Mire (2008)
- Stories of Kurzeme Coast (2006)
- Engure. Lake Given by the Sea (2005)
- Seda. People of the Marsh (2004)
- Green City (2003)
- The Caucasus Syndrome (2000)
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