Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone

Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone

Julius, who devours comic books and vampire stories, has a lively imagination. Julius meets Arnold Cautious, who lives in an abandoned house on the...

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My Father, the Spy

My Father, the Spy

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet...

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The Sign Painter

The Sign Painter

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go...

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January

January

It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s...

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To Be Continued. Teenhood

To Be Continued. Teenhood

Five children started school in different parts of Latvia in 2015 and we followed them through their first schoolyear in the 2018 documentary “To...

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My Favorite War

My Favorite War

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

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Seven Awkward Sex Scenes. Part One

Seven Awkward Sex Scenes. Part One

A young director, who sits in front of a commission defending a film based on her own experiences with sex and relationships, is continually...

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Hekabe's Question

Hekabe's Question

Direct and meticulous observation of interpersonal relations is a classic subject in documentary films. In this film the title of which alludes to...

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The Gardener

The Gardener

The old gardener works all day in harmony with nature’s rhythms and the wisdom of the ancient Latvians. His happiness and fulfillment is a garden...

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Pavlensky. Life Naked

Pavlensky. Life Naked

Pavlensky/Pawlenski, artist and activist, is leading the way in forging social change in Russia. Through an multiple courageous performances, he...

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What Nobody Can See

What Nobody Can See

Elsa falls in love with a quadriplegic genius, her patient Nicola, whose mansion hides a secret – Nicola is obsessed with the creation of an...

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The Shift

The Shift

Mareks (32) is a young taxi driver in Riga working hard to provide for his son. He is looking forward to spending the weekend with him when an...

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Over the Roads, Over the River

Over the Roads, Over the River

Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old...

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Larger than Life

Larger than Life

A film about one of Europe's best young theatre directors, Latvian-born Alvis Hermanis, and his distinctive method, marked by a renunciation of...

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All My Friends Are Dead

All My Friends Are Dead

“Roses are red, violets are blue, I had my friends, but now they're dead.” When Anna Zaķis was young, she experienced the upswing of social...

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If Trees Could Talk

If Trees Could Talk

Deniss is a Russian-speaking young man working at a fast food chain and spending his days in a small, gloomy apartment where all the things still...

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Resistance is Futile

Resistance is Futile

Two young men come to visit their friend, who, after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, spends his daily life in a remote country house. Spending a...

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A Day After The Year

A Day After The Year

On March 11, 2020 the WHO declared the outbreak of Covid-19 as a pandemic. At the time, almost no one predicted that this pandemic would drag on...

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Mothers and Others

Mothers and Others

What does it mean for a woman to take up the role of mother? The film follows four Latvian women during different stages of pregnancy. An...

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The Land

The Land

Through six very different families, documentary “The Land” shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions of...

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