
Reinis Kalviņš is a Latvian director and producer. He studied filmmaking under Béla Tarr at Film Factory Sarajevo, where he completed an MA. His debut feature, the crime drama “The Shift” (2019), won Best Debut at the Latvian National Film Awards, Lielais Kristaps. His directing credits also include the short films “He Took the Bottle but Left the Girl” (2014), “Blackout” (2015), and “Coffee and Cigarettes” (2016). He is an alumnus of TorinoFilmLab and Locarno Match Me. As a producer and line producer, his credits include “1906” (2019) by Gatis Šmits and “Hatching” (2022) by Hanna Bergholm, which premiered at Sundance.