Janis Abele

BIOGRAPHIE

[EN] Cinéaste Janis Abele with his graduation film "Six feet above" (2015) won Grand Prix at 33rd International short film festival “Tous Courts” in France. This success paved the way for the debut feature, "7 Billion Years before the End of the World", released in 2018. A year later, the director's second feature, "Jelgava '94," achieved both box office success in Latvia and received four national film awards, including the Best Directing recognition for Jānis Ābele at the age of 29. "Jelgava '94" also became the first Latvian fiction film to be available on Netflix. In 2022, he released an essay short documentary “81 Meters” that traveled around 15 festivals and received a national film prize as the best short documentary. In 2024, the next essay short documentary “Blank Page Syndrome '' will premiere as well as the director's first feature length documentary “The Last Will”.

FILMOGRAPHIE