Latvia

Jānis was an actor – respected and in demand. Dina came to the Liepāja Theatre to become an actress. In the summer of 1992, Jānis fell off the roof of his house, broke his back and was ...

A story of Augšbebri (Bobrovka) village in Siberia, set up by Latvians at the end of 19th century.

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

At the end of 70ies, when individual houses were getting destroyed in the Latvian countryside to put everyone in Soviet kolkhozs, painters Inta Celmiņa and Edvards Grūbe bought a house ...

In a Latvian bakery, Aina breaks 40000 eggs per day by hand, and she has done this monotone job for almost 20 years.

To be a harp player or a proffesional guard-for-hire? A young musician, at the very beginnig of his professional career. As many creative-minded young people in Latvia, he faces a ...

Viesturs Kairišs’ 2004 documentary The Monument investigates the interpretation of Riga’s Soviet Second World War memorial in the post-Soviet era. The "Victory Monument" was established ...

At the end of World War II, many Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians fled the Soviet rule. They stayed abroad for many years. Now, after the regaining of independence of the three ...

Behind the scenes of the best TV series in Latvian audiovisual history.

Two travellers are making their way to the Palace in hopes to find meaning of life. Do they know that this road is life-long?

Nominated as one of the best Latvian short films in 2007

Every spring the surroundings of the Lake Lubāns, the largest lake in Latvia, are in flood. The efforts to prevent the floods have been going on since the middle of the 19th century. ...

In this film, the inhabitants of Riga, each differently, introduce us to this 800-year old European city and make an avowal of love to it. You will learn that Riga is the world capital ...

A young man lives a lonely existence together with a mother whose only interest is watching programmes about animals. He finds the surrounding emptiness so traumatising that he decides ...

What draws thousands of people to leave everything behind and venture out into Siberian taiga, following Visarion, an ex-agent of the Soviet police who proclaims to be Jesus? The film ...

A documentary about Indulis Ranka, a Latvian sculptor.

An animation film based on Latvian folk tales about Kurbads, a son of a mare, who saves princesses and defeats the evil witch.

A struggling actress, a teacher, a former seaman, a policeman and a veterinarian all have a common line of work – conducting funerals. For one it’s a passion, for one a duty, but for ...

One spring morning, animals wake up from their winter sleep and find that their forest is taken over by people who have built a city there. They understand they need to find new ...

A comic fantasy of the most famous characters in the Latvian literature. A story about their adventures throughout the 800 year-long history of Riga city.

A tale about a nine-year old boy's relationship with the world around him, shot in one of Latvia's poorest and most beautiful regions - Latgale

She comes at night, quiet as a cat, to take his sleep away until he feeds her. All she needs is milk brought by him somewhere between sleep and reality. Her name is Insomnia.