Movie Details
Original Language:Latvian
Production Companies:Baltic Balkan Productions Rucka Art Foundation
Before the Light on the Web:Official Website
Before the Light
DirectorKristine Briede
WriterKristine Briede
1 hr 17 minDocumentary
Plot
Emotionally charged story about three women standing against male dominated church preventing them from following their calling to serve God and their communities Protestan female ministers who wish to serve God the Church and people as pastors in todays Latvia can only do that under the wing of foreign churches Latvia is the only country in the world whose official Lutheran church has banned ordination of women after successfully practicing it for two decades While some of the women ministers refusing to accept this leave the country to build lives as fullyfledged pastors elsewhere in the world others carry on serving as secondrate assistants or other church workers However today there are female theologians who are ready to fight for a future in more equal society thus ending the discrimination based on other sex or wrong gender The road towards changes leads through frustrations confidence and doubts obedience and rebellion
