About the director:

Yevgeny Pashkevich was born in 1948 in Daugavpils, Latvia. He graduated from State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) (Moscow, Russia), directing department, in 1978. Since 1969 worked at Riga Film Studio (Latvia). In 2000 founded film production company “Nida Filma”. He is a scriptwriter for 11 fiction and documentary films, director of 2 fiction and 36 documentary films.

His debut fiction feature “The Days of a Man” (Dni cheloveka, 1989) was screened on the official programme of the Berlin International Film Festival (Germany) Panorama section and other major film festivals with considerable success. “Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg” is his second feature.