Jacob lives in the city and dreams of becoming an architect like his busy dad. He spends a lot of time drawing buildings and daydreaming while his father is at work. One day dad needs to go away on business for longer than usual and Jacob has to spend the whole week with his bossy cousin Mimmi >..
During the Soviet time the film “Four White Shirts” was known under the different, imposed by censorship, title “Breathe deeply …” It is a movie – phenomenon, because despite the fact that under the Soviets it was shelved and reached wider audience only twenty years after its completion >..
During the joyous hubbub of dancing maskers, the Sun’s and the Moon’s baby girl is kidnapped. The distraught parents beg humans to retrieve her, so Nabašnieks, along with the Girl and her little Brother, set out on the journey >..
The legendary “The Child of Man” is a clear and bright movie about a boy’s childhood in countryside around the 1930-ties. A boy Bonifācijs Paulāns, nicknamed by his family Boņuks, has his own joys >..
In the 1920s, a resourceful man Edgars Ceplis establishes a joint-stock company that produces Latvian clay bricks for export. Number of people get involved in his venture, expecting the major profit promised by Mr. Ceplis, soon though >..
The final year of Word War I. A German army surgeon Ulrich is sent to inspect a remote convalescent home for shell-shocked patients. In the strange world he encounters reality appears as dreamlike vision and becomes too challenging >..
Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love reveal the character of Raya, a 17-year-old living in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. A staggering turn of events shakes up their lives >..
Arvīds Lasmanis can’t hold any job for long because he is not ready to tolerate deceit and slapdash work. He still has to feed his family, by chance he finds a well-paid job as a gravedigger. A friend helps Arvīds to find a place >..
After WW2 thousands of Latvians became refugees or went into the woods to continue armed resistance against the Soviet occupants. Their belief of a soon coming war for independence was used by the secret forces of Sweden >..
A crazy quest for sanity. The personal story of a woman struggling with an inherited illness, as told by Signe Baumane, the Latvian director-animator living in New York City. With humour and courage, the director sets out on a challenging journey to discover >..
Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker, are involved in several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting the “golden youth” beauty, Sabina, he looks for a fresh start in downtown circles >..
This film is about a small world found in the heart of Riga, and right in the middle of the Daugava River – Zaķusala (Rabbit Island) – a place that has preserved an ambience of another century. Janka lives on Zaķusala >..
It is Riga of the 1930ies. The educated but unemployed Olģerts Kurmis – literate in English, French and Latin – supports himself by doing odd jobs for the wealthy Mr. Kalnkāja, who hopes to be elected to Parliament. >..
This film is both a picturesque telling of the creation of Richard Wagner’s opera Valkyrie at the Latvian National Opera, as well as a look into the imagination of the production’s director. Featured are the opera’s director Viesturs Kairišs, conductor Andris Nelsons, >..
12-year-old Raimonds tries to cover up a bad note at school and starts a spiral of lies, which spins out of control. He has to venture into Riga’s thrilling night-life to save his saxophone, his friendship and his face in front of his >..
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Rūdolfs, a city physician, spends his summer in the countryside, which is where he meets Laura – a teacher and mother of two, and whose husband is in prison. Rūdolfs saves the life of Laura’s daughter, Zaiga, makes friends >..
When Jānis Striečs film “A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer’s Eve” came out at the end of 1981, no one had any idea that several decades later it would still be so relevant, even acquiring new generations of fans and becoming eminently quotable! >..
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In terms of social resonance, Vilis Lapenieks’ film The Fisherman’s Son has no equal. The film adaptation of Vilis Lācis’ popular novel was a national blockbuster and created such excitement that at its premiere on 2 January, 1940, the public at the Splendid Palace broke down the theatre’s doors. >..
This film is Jānis Streics’ dedication to Blaumanis – a fantasy peopled by the characters from Skroderdienas in their youth; names have been changed and the time has been shifted to a later date.
National consciousness awoke at the beginning of the 20th century >..
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