Elizabete Milta

“TESA MAN” is a music film – a poetic exploration of the relationship between collective creativity and the natural world. The film blurs the lines between reality and imagination, inviting viewers into an animistic experience where music performed by the band Tesa in a frozen Baltic landscape attempts to transform air, steam, ash and clay into something much more alive.

Five twenty-somethings, in search of an authentic life, move into an isolated country house full of books. Living in the carelessness of youth, with time, practical problems and the immature nature of young people create tension. Everyone has romanticized the idea of an independent and responsibility-free life – running away from reality, they run right into it.

Unable to strike up a conversation with anyone at a party, a young man takes desperate measures to get attention.

Young ice cream vendor Max aspires to become a techno musician but he experiences a paralyzing fear of performing before stepping on stage at a club. Torn between his toxic friend Alex and his muse Helen, he will need to find the courage to overcome his self-doubt and limitations.

A historical thriller about Latvia in 1938 - not long before the Russian occupation.