Modris

2014
1h 38m

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Modris, a 17-year-old, is like many teenagers in his small town. He has developed an addiction to gambling and is frequently in trouble. As his mother turns him to the police, now he struggl... Read allModris, a 17-year-old, is like many teenagers in his small town. He has developed an addiction to gambling and is frequently in trouble. As his mother turns him to the police, now he struggles to keep out of jail.Modris, a 17-year-old, is like many teenagers in his small town. He has developed an addiction to gambling and is frequently in trouble. As his mother turns him to the police, now he struggles to keep out of jail.

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- 5 wins & 9 nominations total

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The film was selected as the Latvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.

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Modris, a film by Juris Kursietis: Latvia's 2014 Oscar submission

Modris is a naturalistic portrait of a Latvian teenager adrift in an indifferent, austere society. The title character stumbles through life always on the verge of making a wrong decision: whether in small-time gambling, confrontations with authority figures, or fraught conversations with a mother who doesn't know how to do her son right.

Modris won Best Debut Film at the Latvian National Film Festival and was Latvia's submission for the Foreign Language Oscar in 2015. Kursietis was awarded Best Director at Tbilisi and Best New Director at San Sebastián.

Source: Filmatique.com