Silence and Noise

A directing project for the 3rd year of the Latvian Academy of Culture

High school student Sven and his friends spend the pandemic in a communal apartment. With no school to attend, they devote their days to bohemian revelry and dreams of art and growing up. When Sven’s best friend moves to Belgium, the distance between them quickly turns into silence, and nothing frightens young people more than the sound of silence. The pain of first love, unbearable distance and the despair of constant closeness, as well as the theater the members of the commune perform for one another’s amusement, unfold into a whirl only the carousel of youth can set in motion.