More Than A Dance | Latvia | European Film Festival of Atlanta 2026

SYNOPSIS
Eighteen thousand dancers. One small nation. A story about what survives war, displacement, and time. More Than a Dance follows a Toronto-based Latvian folk dance group — descendants of World War II refugees — as they journey back to their ancestors' homeland to take part in one of the largest folk festivals on earth: the Latvian Song and Dance Festival. For one extraordinary week, 18,000 performers fill the streets and stages of Riga in a spectacle of colour, music, and resilience that has never before been captured on the big screen.
But this is not simply a film about dance. It is about what a small nation holds onto when everything else is taken away. Latvia has survived occupation, Soviet repression, and the long silence of exile — and through it all, its people kept singing, kept dancing, kept passing something essential down to their children and their children's children. In Toronto, thousands of miles from the Baltic coast, that thread never broke.
As Russia's war in Ukraine reminds the world how fragile freedom can be, this film asks a question that feels more urgent than ever: what does it mean to carry a homeland inside you? More Than a Dance is a film for anyone who has ever belonged to two worlds — or longed to. In one of the most multicultural cities on earth, it is a celebration of identity, memory, and the remarkable human need to come home.

This event is made possible by the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Latvia in Atlanta and the American Latvian Association

PARKING:
Please note that that the Plaza Theater has limited parking. Public parking can be found at 675 N. Highland Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, United States

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