Before the Light

Synopsis

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 today’s 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 fully-fledged pastors elsewhere in the world, others carry on serving as second-rate 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.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Kristine Briede
Writing	Writer	Kristine Briede
Camera	Director of Photography	Jānis Šēnbergs
Sound	Music	Sniedze Prauliņa Rihards Zaļupe
	Sound Director	Artis Lūsis
Editing	Editor	Andris Grants
Production	Producer	Ieva Ūbele
	Co-Producer	Antra Gaile
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