Before the Light
2023, LV. Directed by Kristine Briede.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- LV
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- Released
- 23 February 2023
- Original title
- Svārstības
- Country
- Latvia
- Written by
- Kristine Briede
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Before the Light runs 77 minutes (1h 17m).
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Before the Light isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 February 2023. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Before the Light?
Before the Light (2023) was directed by Kristine Briede.