Latvia

Dawn or Ausma, the visually powerful monochrome tragicomedy from Latvian director-screenwriter Laila Pakalnina, is inspired by the mythical propaganda story of Pavel Trofimovich Morozov, the 13-year-old boy who denounced his father to the authorities as an anti-Soviet and was ultimately murdered by his own family. More popularly known as Pavlik, the teenager has been praised by the Soviet government as a political martyr.