Screening of the film “Uļa”

On October 9 at 7: 00 p.m. at the Babīte Cultural Education Center in Piņķi, we invite you to a screening of director Viesturs Kairišs’s film “Uļa.” The latest Latvian feature film tells the story of the legendary basketball player Uļjana Semjonova, revealing her personality and her path to the heights of world sport.

Ticket price - 5 euros (available from September 28 at the Babīte Cultural Education Center administrator’s office).

The film “Uļa” is a visually and emotionally powerful story about identity, growing up, and the search for belonging. It is set in Latvia in the late 1960s. Uļa is a teenage Old Believer whose height is approaching two meters. When her class photo ends up in the hands of basketball coaches, Uļa is taken to Riga to join a famous basketball team. Struggling with her height and identity, she trains hard, but soon realizes that she must make one of the most important choices of her life - to hide or to become the best basketball player in the world.