Vides Filmu Studija will host a free public premiere of their new film Jaguāra kakts ("Jaguar’s Corner") at 18:30 Thursday, April 1 at Cinema Riga.

Directed by Andis Mizišs (The Followers, The Worm, The Church Will Arrive in the Evening), the new film is a feature-length documentary exploring the uneasy relationship between a Baptist mission and the indigenous people in Bolivia.

In 1946, a group of Latvian Brazilian Baptist missionaries arrived to Rincon del Tigre ("Jaguar's Corner"), in the backwoods of Bolivia, to preach God's word to the Ayoreo Indians. After sixty years of selfless work in a largely hostile environment, something seems to have gone terribly wrong. Habituated to living under the protective wings of the mission, the Ayoreos seem neither to be willing to support themselves and start living on their own, nor able to return to their traditional way of life in the jungle. Dressed in second-hand clothes, they are stranded in the backwoods of Western-style civilization, with no particular way to go.

Starting from April 2, the film will be screened at Cinema Riga.