All Birds Sing Beautifully

2025

A musical documentary film

87 min

All Birds Sing Beautifully is a musical documentary about the end of the world — an ending so subtle, it unfolds before our eyes. Over the past twenty years, countless bird species have been disappearing rapidly from the landscapes of Latvia and Europe — even those long celebrated in ancient Latvian folk songs. Without these birds, the mythological structure and perception of the Latvian world is threatened. Five actors and a choir set out on a travelling performance across Latvia, encountering the yellow wagtail, the Eurasian skylark, the white-backed woodpecker, the corncrake, and the hazel grouse — birds whose voices can now scarcely be heard in our forests and fields, silenced by human activity.

What will become of us if the world we keep singing about vanishes completely? Will we, too, disappear along with it?

Director, scriptwriter

Krista Burāne

Cast

Elīza Dombrovska

Artūrs Čukurs

Anna Klišāne

Rūta Dišlere

Armands Siliņš-Bergmanis

Cinematographers

Mārtiņš Jansons

Lelde Goba

Māris Maskalāns

Renārs Muskars

Editors

Krista Burāne

Paula Ločmele

Composer

Jēkabs Nīmanis

Sound designer

Edvards Broders

Sound operator

Arvīds Ceļmalis

Aigars Endzelis

Graphic designer

Toms Burāns