09-04-2026

Latvian film "Ulya" by Viestur Kairish in the Cannes competition

    Ulya by Viestur Kairish Ulya by Viestur Kairish credit: Ego Media

    Ulya - a film by Viestur Kairish selected for the 79th Cannes Film Festival competition programme Un Certain Regard

    based on the idea of actor Kārlis Arnolds Avots

    and his desire to play out this emotional and dramatic story

    of the search for an unusual identity of a teenager

    - the biography of the legendary female Latvian basketball player Ulyana Semyonova

     

    produced by

    Ego Media (Latvia)

    in co-production with

    Allfilm (Estonia) | Staron Film (Poland) | Tremora (Lithuania)