
Seekers
2017-11-12 · 26 min · Not rated
This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs others on how to find them. Since they started in 2009, they’ve helped find more than 90 people who had gone missing. It follows volunteers during training and on a search mission – theirs is a nerve-wracking task as in many cases they only locate the expired body of the missing person.
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- Directors
- Didzis Eglītis
- Production companies
- Quick Film Productions
- Countries
- Latvia
- Status
- Released
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