New York Baltic Film Festival - Ulya
Saturday, November 7 will feature the North American Premiere of Ulya, a biopic of legendary athlete Uļjana Semjonova, alongside a film talk with director Viesturs Kairišs (2026; Latvia/Poland/Estonia/Lithuania). The film follows Ulya’s life from her early teen years on a farm in the snowy fields in Latgale, when her
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height began approaching two meters at an alarming rate, and does not seem to be stopping. Surrounded by the safe haven of her loving village of Old Believers, Ulya’s destiny changes when her sister’s fiancé Pavel secretly sends Ulja’s class photo to Karbergs, head coach of the Latvian women’s basketball team TTT. Transported to an unfamiliar world, Ulya must choose between the fraught world of athletic stardom and her quest to live a normal life.