The Bog world-premieres at Warsaw Film Festival
Reinis Kalviņš's second feature opened in Warsaw's 1-2 Competition, came home to Riga IFF and Latvian cinemas, and now heads to Tallinn.
The Bog (Klajumā aiz meža), the second feature by Reinis Kalviņš, had its world premiere at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival (9–18 October 2026). It screened in the 1-2 Competition, Warsaw's section for first and second features, as one of six Latvian titles at this year's festival.
The film is a crime drama set in a small Latvian town whose people work the peat fields. When the remains of a teenage boy surface in the bog, a local drunk, Ādamsons, insists on confessing to a decades-old killing. Officers Brože and Keziks soon find the case unsettling the order the town has always lived by, and Brože is drawn into a day he can neither fully remember nor forget.
Kaspars Zvīgulis and Armands Berģis lead the cast, with Edgars Ozoliņš and Lauris Dzelzītis. Kalviņš developed the story with Estonian screenwriters Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis, who also co-wrote January (2022). The film was shot in autumn 2024 with a crew from Latvia, Estonia, Germany and Spain, and is produced by Gints Grūbe and Inese Boka-Grūbe for Mistrus Media.
For Kalviņš, the landscape is personal: he spent his childhood summers around Latvian peat bogs, where preserved "bog bodies" are occasionally found centuries after burial. The film picks up that image of a past that never stays buried.
From Warsaw to Riga and Tallinn
After Warsaw, The Bog had its Latvian premiere at Riga International Film Festival on 22 October and opened in Latvian cinemas the next day. Riga IFF's programmers placed it within the rise of Baltic noir, balancing an elegiac detective story with existential drama.
The film now continues to the Baltic Film Competition at the 30th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (6–22 November).
The Bog marks a second collaboration between Mistrus Media and Kalviņš, following his debut The Shift (2020).
The Bog world-premieres at Warsaw Film Festival
Reinis Kalviņš's second feature opened in Warsaw's 1-2 Competition, came home to Riga IFF and Latvian cinemas, and now heads to Tallinn.
The Bog (Klajumā aiz meža), the second feature by Reinis Kalviņš, had its world premiere at the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival (9–18 October 2026). It screened in the 1-2 Competition, Warsaw's section for first and second features, as one of six Latvian titles at this year's festival.
The film is a crime drama set in a small Latvian town whose people work the peat fields. When the remains of a teenage boy surface in the bog, a local drunk, Ādamsons, insists on confessing to a decades-old killing. Officers Brože and Keziks soon find the case unsettling the order the town has always lived by, and Brože is drawn into a day he can neither fully remember nor forget.
Kaspars Zvīgulis and Armands Berģis lead the cast, with Edgars Ozoliņš and Lauris Dzelzītis. Kalviņš developed the story with Estonian screenwriters Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis, who also co-wrote January (2022). The film was shot in autumn 2024 with a crew from Latvia, Estonia, Germany and Spain, and is produced by Gints Grūbe and Inese Boka-Grūbe for Mistrus Media.
For Kalviņš, the landscape is personal: he spent his childhood summers around Latvian peat bogs, where preserved "bog bodies" are occasionally found centuries after burial. The film picks up that image of a past that never stays buried.
From Warsaw to Riga and Tallinn
After Warsaw, The Bog had its Latvian premiere at Riga International Film Festival on 22 October and opened in Latvian cinemas the next day. Riga IFF's programmers placed it within the rise of Baltic noir, balancing an elegiac detective story with existential drama.
The film now continues to the Baltic Film Competition at the 30th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (6–22 November).
The Bog marks a second collaboration between Mistrus Media and Kalviņš, following his debut The Shift (2020).
