Viesturs Kairišs' feature film "Uļa" is a visually and emotionally powerful story about identity, growing up, and the search for belonging, set in Latvia in the late 1960s. The film follows Uļa, an Old Believer teenager whose height leads her to be invited to join a famous basketball team in Riga. She faces a choice between hiding and becoming the world's best basketball player. The film's concept creator and lead actor is Kārlis Arnolds Avots, and it is based on the biography of the legendary Latvian basketball player Uļjana Semjonova. The film had its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.