Latvia Movies

He lives and works in a world that contains only him, or so he thinks. Each day is spent exactly in the same way, stamping boxes, not asking where the...

A sister and brother dream of the same adventures, though each interprets their dream differently. A dream travels where we are not, and where each mi...

Forty years have passed, and the protagonist meets his childhood fear - an animated character named Honka.

In 1986, Juris Podnieks made his film "Is it easy to be young?". The film became extremely popular and very soon was shown in 85 countries, which was...

Traditional moral values and contemporary animation styles in a story about the adventures of the musician Tot. Set to ethnic music, the film is a con...

A documentary about Latvian partisans ("forest brothers") who were fighting against the Soviet occupation long after the end of WWII.

A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive.

In the early 1980’s two hundred pairs of common terns (Sterna hirundo) were forced to abandon their last natural nesting place on a river island near...

Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She...

Author on her work: Short film "UN-good" is produced within the project "Cinema poetry" in September 2008. It is a story about an imaginary phone call...

The Latvian underground icons Dambis' portrait - reflections on the past and today. The film includes video material from the musician's personal arch...

Alice, Bob, Carol and David blurs the boundaries between film, gaming and performance. Inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s generative scores from the 1960s fo...

A young man - Rens arrives to the apartment building in microdistrict. Shutting himself off from the world around him, he settles in one of the apartm...

The carelessness of summer residents, relentless sun, bare skin, water, and blood. Sudden injury of Kiril's girlfriend rips the temporal and spatial b...

A girl who is being deported to concentration camp, experiences one of her peers being shot in front of her eyes.

"Bells" is a short poetic documentary film fashioned in the vein of Riga's poetic documentary films from the 20th century. The film delves into the re...

As armed conflict flares up at the edges of Europe, the commemoration of the Second World War is used to prepare people for renewed conflict. In Azerb...

A look at mass physical education events, competitions and sports festivals in Latvia, such as orienteering, cycling, running and other activities wit...

A girl travels through the world of art via history’s most celebrated paintings.