title: Us and Them

overview: The existence of two parallel communities – one Latvian, the other Russian, is the reality of present day Latvia. After the restoration of an independent Latvian Republic in 1991, the Russian-speaking community began to see themselves as a threatened minority and started to depict themselves as oppressed. Where does the truth lie? Are there victims? Or is it simply that the idea of integration, for both sides, does not work properly?

title: Us and Them

job: Editor

original_title: Vai citi?


title: Measured by Your Own Measure

type: Poster

status: Released

overview: A documentary about the creative process of Latvian artist Ilmārs Blumbergs, also featuring poet Imants Tilbergs who is trying to write one and the same book all his life.

title: Measured by Your Own Measure

character: Self

type: Cast

job: Music

department: Sound

type: Crew

job: Director

department: Directing

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

job: Sound Director

department: Editing

original_title: Kas no kā rodas?

original_language: lv


title: Roof on the Moonway

overview: 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 a major European capital Riga. Looking for a new habitat, the birds chose the flat pebbled roof of a concrete island – a printing house – in the middle of the city. The first generation of birds to grow up on this roof and fly to Southern Africa every winter have covered the distance from the Earth to the Moon.  During the film various human attitudes towards the terns will emerge. The attitude of the birds is clear – they view things form above.

title: Roof on the Moonway

job: Writer

department: Writing

original_title: Jumta likums


title: Nude

overview: Some people collect family albums. Sarmīte Sīle, an accomplished arts scholar, takes a nude photo of herself every ten years. Behind this unique series of nude photos that span a lifetime, is her story.

title: Nude

title: Акты

overview: Документальный фильм, снятый к 75-летию латвийского фотохудожника Гунара Бинде и посвящённый его творчеству.

title: Akts

overview: Filma par mākslas darba tapšanas aizkulisēm, par Modeli un Fotomākslinieku — Sarmīti Sīli (modele, Latvijā populāra mākslas zinātniece) un Gunāru Bindi, kuri turpina veidot unikālu akta fotogrāfiju sēriju, kas iesākusies pirms vairākām desmitgadēm, kad tapa nu jau par leģendāru kļuvusī fotogrāfija Meitene ar krustiņu. Filmas sižetu caurvij piektās fotogrāfijas tapšana galveno varoņu drauga savdabīgā un interesantā mākslinieka Arnolda Plauža mājas studijā.

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Akts


title: Ruch and Norie

Ruch un Norie trailer

site: Vimeo

type: Trailer

overview: A human interest story about two people from very different backgrounds striking up a suprising, emotional and spiritual relationship. Japanese student Norie Tsuruta travels to Latvia to study Suiti community. There she meets one of the oldest Suiti women nicknamed Ruch, and develops a very personal bond with her. It doesn't break even when she's back in Japan. Norie wishes she had two bodies to be in both places at the same time. An invisible and inexplicable link connects her with Ruch. Norie thinks she has found her deceased grandma in Ruch while Ruch worries about Norie being "far out there" and trembles at every earthquake in Japan. Ruch and Norie prove us all there are no borders to a genuine relationship filled with humour and love.

title: Ruch and Norie

original_title: Ručs un Norie


title: The Film

overview: Three young men head to an isolated country house to shoot a film that they hope will bring them fame. They have no experience, but possess the will to change their lives. They make various attempts, but none seem to work. The team comes to a creative impasse, but the stakes are too high to give up. In hopes of drawing out their talents, they spend more and more time chipping away at each other. Previously hidden character traits come to light further complicating their relationship and the making of the film. Soon it's each man for himself. Just when the experiment seems utterly failed, one of them is discovered dead. It's not clear whether it's accidental, suicide or murder, but a real body in the scene satisfies - this could be the start of The Film.

title: The Film

job: Art Direction

department: Art

job: Costume Design

department: Costume & Make-Up

original_title: Filma


title: The Unusual Rigans

overview: An animated film to celebrate the city of Riga's 800th anniversary.  Justin, the chicken, longs to become a Golden Rooster and to guard Riga. The city is shown as a dream world full of mystery and strange  creatures that live alongside people and are not that very different from humans.

title: The Unusual Rigans

title: Необычные рижане

overview: Про золотых петушков, которые исправно работаю флюгерами на прекрасных башнях Риги и охраняют город. Приключения маленького цыпленка, который мечтал стать таким же золотым флюгером.

original_title: Neparastie rīdzinieki


title: Looking-Rhymes

overview: A surreal adventure story centered around four characters that are in a hurry for a game of Ludo and make their journey to a meeting point while fighting the colored tokens of the game that have started transforming into gangsters and attacking them.

title: Looking-Rhymes

title: Skatāmpanti

title: Считалки в картинках

overview: Мультипликационный фильм для детей по мотивам считалочек Яниса Балтвилка.

job: Art Designer

original_title: Skatāmpanti


title: Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics

type: Backdrop

overview: An investigative look at the life of Latvia’s first foreign minister Zigfrids Anna Meierovics is also a chronicle of the inception of the statehood of Latvia. In a time of deep political turmoil, one man had to make the choices and sacrifices necessary to achieve the legitimacy of an entire country.

title: Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics

title: Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics

overview: Filma "Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics" tapusi Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonda Simtgades programmas ietvaros. Filmas režisors Tālivaldis Margēvičs (scenārija autors filmām "Sieviete, kura gaida", "Šķērsiela") pie ieceres par Zigfrīda Annas Meierovica kinoportretu strādājis vairāk nekā 20 gadu. Rezultātā tapusī filma, vēstot par dižā politiķa darbu, reizē stāsta arī par nozīmīgiem notikumiem, kas ļāvuši dibināt un nosargāt Latvijas valsti. Lai filma par Zigfrīdu Annu Meierovicu būtu interesanta ne tikai vēstures entuziastiem, bet arī plašam skatītāju lokam kinozālēs visapkārt Latvijai, tā apvieno inscenētas epizodes ar vēsturisko liecību montāžu.

original_title: Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics


title: Moskatchka

overview: Once you stand still, things will come up to you. (Gottfried Benn)  Using tableau-like takes of different places of the Muscovite suburb (Moskatchka), a poor quarter of the Latvian capital Riga, the film shows fragments of the choreography of life and combines them to form a picture of reality. Without making any comments, the camera observes the people’s behaviour, which reminds you of the early Flaherty and how his camera “stuck to” his film heroes . It also reminds you of the beginning of film art when the recording of reality on a strip of film was an event, in spite of its accidental character.

title: Moskatchka

original_title: Moskačka

production_countries: DE LV


title: Little Devils

overview: Little Devils revolves around two mischievous devils who make their way up from hell to a farmhouse in Latvia. The devils start pulling devilish pranks, such as putting the farmer to bed in the barn, and the bull to bed beside the farmer’s wife. When two thieves enter the scene, chaos ensues as they discover "the farmer" is a monster and "the bull" can talk.

title: Little Devils

original_title: Velniņi


title: Lords of Riga

overview: Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their way through the urban traffic, they have become silent and sometimes unnoticed witnesses of everyday life in Riga as well as examples of our modern-day society. What is freedom to this bunch of rebellious messengers and where it ends?

title: Lords of Riga

original_title: Rīgas kungi


title: The Hunt

overview: After the lives of several people are tied into a intriguing knot upon meeting police officer Krasts one hot summer day, they’re all brought together again on a full moon winter night. Intrigue develops among a couple of lovers, Gints and Elga, three adventure-race participants with one woman, Renate, on their team, three generations of a family whose father, Karlis, died in a tragic hunting accident, Karlis’s daughter Aija, his former lover Livija, and a young girl hardened by life, who lives at a Christian home for expectant mothers. A detective twist is added by a bit of poison, which one of them will get.

title: The Hunt

job: Makeup Artist

original_title: Medības


title: Bear of Happiness

overview: A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.

title: Bear of Happiness

title: Laimes lācis

overview: Ja jau Čaklo ciems, slinkumsērgas mākts, pārvērties par Sliņķu ciemu, tad jājūdz vien kamanas un jābrauc pēc Laimes lāča, lai šis nu ļautiņiem palīdz.

title: Медведь-чудодей

overview: По мотивам рассказа Андрея Упита «Пареньки села Замшелого». Ленивые и нерадивые жители маленькой деревушки, попав в беду, обращаются за помощью к волшебному Медведю-чудодею, который учит их трудолюбию.

job: Animation

department: Visual Effects

original_title: Laimes lācis


title: How I Sought the Maiden of the North

overview: A young man’s heart is full of passion and warmth. He decides to leave his father’s home to venture into the world. By chance, he overhears a conversation between a giant and the daughter of the sun, which reveals to him the legend of the Northern Maiden. He then chooses to set out to sea in search of this fabled being. Based on a story by Kārlis Skalbe.

title: How I Sought the Maiden of the North

title: Kā es braucu Ziemeļmeitas lūkoties

title: Как я ездил к деве Севера

overview: Романтичный молодой человек отправляется на лодке через море, надеясь на встречу со сказочной девой Севера. Но, решив плыть менее опасным путём, оказывается на острове, где живут люди, предающиеся лени и чревоугодию...

job: Short Story

original_title: Kā es braucu Ziemeļmeitas lūkoties


title: Little Hares' Bath

overview: On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.

title: Little Hares' Bath

title: Zaķīšu pirtiņa

title: Заячья банька

overview: Заячье семейство вечером на лугу устроило баньку, но внезапно ворвавшийся щенок всех распугал, а самый маленький зайчонок убежал так далеко, что потерялся в темноте…

original_title: Zaķīšu pirtiņa

title: Заячья банька

country: RU

title: Little Rabbits' Bath

country: US


title: Quantum Code

overview: Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs is a man who feels the world with each single one of his atoms and breaks the stereotype about physics as a dry and impersonal field of science. In parallel to splitting electrons in the laboratory, he seeks a connection to the Almighty, and is a dreamer, an exceptional scientist, family man and educator, socially active and civically minded. What allows him, unlike most of us, to be so harmonious and seemingly omniscient? Together with quantum physicist, theological authority and Latvian patriot Vyacheslav Kashcheyev, the film searches for the code to modern-day life.

title: Quantum Code

original_title: Kvanta kods


title: Turtles

overview: The calamities of a turtle family which is driven out of its natural environment. European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) are the only species of turtles living in Latvia and they are endangered.

title: Turtles

title: Bruņurupuči

title: Черепахи

original_title: Bruņurupuči

title: Brunurupuci

country: LV

title: Черепахи

country: SU

title: Cherepakhi


title: The Woman Who is Awaited?

overview: A film about a woman's role in the society.

title: The Woman Who is Awaited?

title: Sieviete, kuru gaida?

overview: Filma – pārdomas par sievietes lomu un iepējām sabiedrībā. Šo analītisko darbu kinokritiķis Miks Savisko savulaik nosaucis par latviešu dokumentālā kino 70. gadu galveno filmu. Tā ir pirmā filma, kas saņēmusi dokumentālistu balvu Lielais Kristaps, un šīs desmitgades apmeklētākā dokumentālā filma, kas izsauca īstu furoru – pusotra mēneša laikā to noskatījās vairāk nekā 100 000 skatītāju, presē tika publicēts vairāk nekā 50 atsauksmju, izraisījās aktīvas diskusijas, bet visā Padomju Savienībā filmas skatītāju skaits sasniedza 11 miljonus.

original_title: Sieviete, kuru gaida?


title: Four Search for a Million

overview: Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.

title: Four Search for a Million

title: Četri meklē miljonu

original_title: Četri meklē miljonu


title: The Gentle Sounding Of Livonians A Week Before The End Of The World

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

original_title: Lībiešu mēles liegā ieskanēšanās nedēļu pirms pasaules gala


title: The Baltic Saga

overview: 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 Baltic states, they are coming back. Their stories vary.

title: The Baltic Saga

original_title: Baltijas sāga


title: I Am Not a Vagabond

overview: A documentary about one of the most influential Latvian composers, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, who lives in Canada.

title: I Am Not a Vagabond

title: Es neesmu klaidonis

original_title: Es neesmu klaidonis


title: Pa-Pa

Pa Pa filmas treileris

site: YouTube

overview: A father who has just been released from prison strives to reconnect with his son. Good intentions are hindered by unexpected obstacles. An unforgettable day spent by the two together might turn into the very last day for one of them.

title: Pa-Pa

character: Leons

character: Pāvels (Paša)

character: Māte

character: Uģis

character: Raivo

character: Līga

character: Ņikita

character: Antons

character: Paula

original_title: Pa Pa

title: Pa Pa


title: The Curonians

overview: Curonians is a historical documentary about one of the ancient Baltic tribes. The Curonians lived in the western parts of modern-day Latvia from the 5th until the 16th century. They eventually merged with other Baltic peoples to form the Latvian nation. The docu-mentary utilizes reenacted scenes, interviews with known historians and 3D animation to tell the story of this brave warrior tribe. They were feared even by their Scandinavian neighbors and remained one of the last remaining pagan tribes in Europe. Evidence of Curonian rituals can be found as late as the 19th century. The film offers a brief insight into their lives, culture, customs and beliefs. It tells about their moments of strength, victory and also their defeats.

title: The Curonians

original_title: Kurši


title: Tower

overview: A group of Japanese tourists arrives to the Italian city of Pisa to see the famous crooked tower. There they are joined by a pensionerr from Latvia. While viewing the tower it suddenly begins to crook and frightened tourists rush to hold it. Their efforts are reported on TV globally, which is seen by "The Rescue Team" and so the men rush to save the tower and also the Latvian pensioneer…

title: Tower

original_title: Tornis


title: Tom Thumb

overview: An animation film based on the play by Anna Brigadere.

title: Tom Thumb

title: Sprīdītis

original_title: Sprīdītis

title: Sparked


title: Unbroken

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

title: Unbroken

title: Nesalauztie

overview: Een documentaire over Letse partizanen ('bos broeders') die lang na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog vochten tegen de Sovjet bezetting.

original_title: Nesalauztie


title: Papiņš

overview: A story about how a young man filmed a story about fishermen.

title: Papiņš

original_title: Papiņš


title: All My Dead

overview: They met on Christmas Eve, beyond one's usual living-space: at the morgue. In an outburst of feelings, they try to manipulate each other in order to get what they want. She wants him, but he wants to vanish – following the rules of black comedy, neither one of them will get anything.

title: All My Dead

title: Trauslā sirds

original_title: Trauslā sirds


title: Īvāns

overview: The documentary about Dainis Īvāns, leader of the National Awakening movement between late 1980s and early 1990s, a human symbol of the recent history of Latvia who embodies all hope, idealism, disappointment, choices, compromises, wins and losses. Eventually, he finds strength within himself to return to his roots, rather than let grindstones of history crush him, to be more than just an accidental figure in the big plan of destiny.

title: Īvāns

title: Īvāns

overview: Filma "Īvāns" ir stāsts par cilvēku, kurš simbolizē jaunlaiku Latvijas vēsturi, par cilvēkvalsti, kas apvieno sevī gan cerības, ideālismu, vilšanos, izvēles, kompromisus, uzvaras un zaudējumus. Un atrod sevī spēku atgriezties pie pirmsākumiem, neļaut sevi samalt laikmeta griežiem un nebūt tikai par gadījumu dzīves noliktajā stāstā.

original_title: Īvāns


title: The Golden Sieve

overview: Three animated songs for the youngest viewers, based on the classics of Latvian children's literature. Poems The Golden Sieve, The Cloud Boy and the Cloud Girl, and The Sun and the Moon by Rainis tell children in poetic images "how things happen in the sky", where the goddess of fate Laima scatters stars like diamond seeds, Cloud Children annoy Father Thunder by swinging and overturn the big rain bowl, but the beautiful Daughter of the Sun falls in love with the stately Moon Boy.

title: The Golden Sieve

title: Zelta sietiņš

overview: Muzikāls vēstījums par notikumiem zilajā debesu pasaulē - tur, kur baras Pērkontēvs, kur Zelta sietiņš zelta graudus sijā, kur Saules meita skumst pēc sava Mēness puiša, un kur blēņojas mākonīši.

title: Золотое сито

overview: Музыкальная фантазия на тему основанных на фольклорном сюжете детских стихотворений Райниса. В трёх новеллах: «Золотое сито», «Облако и туча» и «Солнце и месяц» рассказывается о различных природных явлениях.

original_title: Zelta sietiņš


title: Danceplay

overview: 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 contemporary “ballet” of animation based on a play by Rainis.

title: Danceplay

title: Я играл, я плясал

original_title: Spēlēju, dancoju!


title: Suns Funs un vējš

overview: The main character of the film is a charming dog. All his friends asked him to catch the wind, as it was touching everyone, and that's where it all began...

title: Suns Funs un vējš

title: Suns Funs un vējš

title: Пес и ветер

overview: Герой фильма - очаровательный пёс. Все друзья попросили его поймать ветер, так как тот всех трогал, вот здесь всё и началось...

original_title: Suns Funs un vējš


title: The Formula of Happiness

overview: Imagine centuries ago several witches huddled around a steaming cauldron, gleefully consigning offensive items to the foul-smelling brew. Maggots, worms, snails – who knows what else? Perhaps unbelievable, but it did help. This is a story about people who practice their own way of feeling fit and happy. A hunter is convinced that beaver glands offer a unique remedy against various ailments. Herbal teas, picked at the right time, can perform miracles! Many shrink away from bees, but bees can bring relief. All good and simple things, forgotten in the rush of the 21st century.

title: The Formula of Happiness

original_title: Laimes formula


title: Latgalīši Sibirī

overview: A documentary about Latgalians in Siberia.

title: Latgalīši Sibirī

job: Idea

job: Technical Supervisor

department: Crew

original_title: Latgalīši Sibirī


title: Hike '44

overview: “Hike '44" is a personal story by director Lauris Abele and cinematographer Marcis Abele about how to maintain humanity when the world falls apart. The protagonist of the film, Melita Abele (89), retraces her refugee path from 1944, when, at the age of 14, she had to leave her home at the beginning of winter. Asking strangers for shelter, spend nights in the woods until she found refuge and warm hearts. Through the use of animation, the viewer will be guided through Melita's memories on a journey through recent and present-day Latvia until a series of events brings Melita to what she has been trying to accomplish for 75 years.

title: Hike '44

original_title: Pārgājiens '44


title: Dust Fairies

overview: This playful story of the mischievous dust fairies follows lively dust creatures as they dance around the nursery, travel up the chimney into the clouds, and soar through the sky with rainbows and raindrops.

title: Dust Fairies

original_title: Māsiņas puteklītes


title: The Searching Dauka

overview: Story about a poor orphan Dauka.

title: The Searching Dauka

title: Dullais Dauka

title: Чудной Даука

overview: По мотивам повести Судрабу Эджуе о бедном сироте Дауке.

original_title: Dullais Dauka

title: Mad Dauka

country: GB


title: Eva

overview: Eva – a beautiful, but meek young woman – arrives at an isolated country house where her husband Robert is lying in a coma recovering from injuries sustained in a mysterious accident in which they lost their apartment. Soon strange things start happening around the house and Eva becomes convinced that Robert is not actually unconscious and is out to harm her.

title: Eva

original_title: Eva


title: Si-si-dra

overview: A puppet animation film by the legendary Arnolds Burovs.

title: Si-si-dra

title: Si-si-dra

title: По-по-дру

original_title: Si-si-dra

title: Sisidra


title: II Lines

name: DIVAS STRĪPIŅAS tīzeris // II LINES teaser

type: Teaser

overview: Twelve uncomfortable, deeply personal and painful stories by women who have had an abortion are read, told and 'experienced' by six male actors. Does that make a difference? Will the society listen now?

title: II Lines

original_title: Divas strīpiņas


title: Therapy

overview: The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for the demolition of his bragging childhood home. Story chronicles the troubled relationship between Mārtiņš and his mother, just as he is about to tear down his childhood home.

title: Therapy

original_title: Terapija


title: Till The End Of The Scene

name: Dokumentālās filmas "Tev, Rūķi!" treileris

overview: For 91-year-old Ruta acting is not just a career: it is her lifestyle.  Once again, she starts working on a new role. This time the theme of the play provokes questions about her own life: how does one deal with ageing? And, most importantly, - is there a specific time when an actress should leave the stage?

title: Till The End Of The Scene

original_title: Tev, Rūķi!


title: UzPasaka

overview: An animation film by Roze Stiebra and Imants Ziedonis

title: UzPasaka

title: UzPasaka

title: Вот те на!

overview: Мультипликационный фильм для малышей по мотивам сказки И.Зиедониса о приключениях одной маленькой девочки Наперсточки, мечтающей стать колокольчиком.

original_title: UzPasaka


title: The Trumpeter of Tālava

overview: An animation based on the folk tale about the trumpeter of Tālava.

title: The Trumpeter of Tālava

title: Tālavas taurētājs

original_title: Tālavas taurētājs


title: Behind the Wire

overview: The story of young lives in the young offenders unit in Cēsis, Latvia. A place governed by its own codes and order, where unwritten rules are more powerful than the written word. In the making of the film, the production team witnessed a gamut of attitudes and emotions. Much can be understood from the youths’ gestures, facial expressions and from their actions. Secretive and uncommunicative, they are victims, yet perpetrators of crime. But, also still children.

title: Behind the Wire

original_title: Aiz žoga


title: Alise

overview: Healer Alise lives in a world alive with nature - swaying grass, rustling wind, rippling streams, birdsong, blooming flowers, ants, ladybugs and butterflies. Using herbal teas and water she helps people regenerate.

title: Alise

original_title: Alise


title: To Be Beautiful

overview: The documentary explores issues of beauty and acceptance in a culture increasingly saturated with idealised and unattainable ideals of femininity.  It is a story about the world of young girls in today's Latvia, based on conversations about girls' attitudes towards the world and their place in it.

title: To Be Beautiful

original_title: Skaistai būt


title: Your Hands

overview: A propaganda film made while Latvia was occupied by Nazi Germany in the 1940s. A party of a wealthy socialite is disrupted by a friend's friend who's come along and turns out to be a soldier. The socialite starts wondering whether she could lend a hand to the war effort.

title: Your Hands

title: Твои руки

overview: Пропагандистский фильм, снятый во время оккупации Латвии нацистской Германией в 1940-х годах. Группу богатой светской львицы прерывает пришедший друг друга, который оказывается солдатом. Светская львица задается вопросом, может ли она помочь в войне.

title: Tavas rokas

character: The soldier

character: The socialite

character: The nail technician

character: The mother

original_title: Tavas rokas

title: Deine Hände

country: DE


title: Between Latvias

overview: Based on interviews with over one hundred people including musicians, hockey fans, farmers, executives, and pensioners in the market. From Latvian President Vaira Vike- Freiberga and business tycoon Aivars Lembergs, to Russian poet Sergei Timofeyev, all discussions stem from one question: What does it mean to be Latvian?

title: Between Latvias

original_title: Starp Latvijām

production_countries: LV US


title: Seda: People of the Marsh

overview: In Seda, a remote peat miners' town in Latvia, time seems to be frozen in the Soviet era. Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multi-ethnic workforce from different parts of the former USSR, it still preserves intact the inflated style of a Stalinist "shock work" construction project. Culturally Seda's people feel like a community apart. Their lingua franca is Russian, and their social life is a mixture of Soviet and Russian Orthodox traditions. They don't want the European Union, they want to live in their own state - the Marshland.

title: Seda: People of the Marsh

title: Seda. Purva ļaudis

overview: In Seda, een afgelegen mijnwerkersdorp in Letland, lijkt de tijd stil te staan in het Sovjettijdperk. Gebouwd in 1952 en bewoond door een multiculturele beroepsbevolking uit verschillende delen van de voormalige Sovjet-Unie, heeft het dorp nog steeds de opgeblazen stijl van een Stalinistisch 'shockwerk'-bouwproject intact bewaard. Cultureel gezien voelen de inwoners van Seda zich een aparte gemeenschap. Hun voertaal is Russisch en hun sociale leven is een mengeling van Sovjet- en Russisch-orthodoxe tradities. Ze willen niets met de Europese Unie te maken hebben, ze willen in hun eigen staat leven: het moerasland.

original_title: Seda. Purva ļaudis


title: They Were The First

overview: In 2006, seven confused Somalian refugees found themselves in the middle of a park in Riga, a modern capital in a member state of the European Union. As they had overstayed their time limit at the national centre for illegal immigrants, the authorities had no strategy for how to deal with them, so the seven refugees were simply let go. They had no identity documents and no money. They didn’t speak the language. They didn’t even have a legal option for leaving Latvia. Two of them were underage. The seven Somalians found help and a place to stay in Latvia, but not through official channels. The Somalian protagonists in this film ended up choosing separate paths. Some of them have left Latvia and moved to a more welcoming country. Some have chosen to stay – they have learned the language and enjoy living in Latvia. The case of the seven Somalians is an extreme example of how unprepared Latvian society is for the upcoming increase in multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, and migration.

title: They Were The First

original_title: Pirmie


title: Latvieši?!

overview: A film about national belonging, featuring Latvian director Alvis Hermanis.

title: Latvieši?!

title: Latvieši?!

original_title: Latvieši?!


title: Diena bez vakara

overview: The directing debut of the acclaimed Latvian cinematographer Māris Rudzītis.

title: Diena bez vakara

title: Diena bez vakara

title: День без вечера

overview: Главный врач туберкулезного санатория Эгле, работающий над новым препаратом для лечения туберкулеза, проводив жену и сына на юг, получает подтверждение из лаборатории о том, что поражен лучевой болезнью. Эгле решается на эксперимент - он сам принимает новое лекарство.

original_title: Diena bez vakara


title: A Birdless Night

overview: Human relationships are like fishing nets, they can be either filled or nodular.

title: A Birdless Night

title: Nakts bez putniem

overview: Filma pēc Egona Līva stāsta. Zvejnieks Jānis pēc ilgas prombūtnes atgriežas dzimtajā ciematā, taču uz mājām neiet, jo viņa sieva Ilze tur dzīvo kopā ar Tobiasu, kuru Jānis reiz jau aiz greizsirdības gandrīz nogalinājis. Rīgā Jānis aizrāvies ar Dzintru, tomēr joprojām nespēj tikt skaidrībā ar savām jūtām. Traģisks notikums liek Jānim atgriezties pie Ilzes, vēl nemaz nezinot, ka viņš pats, nevis Tobiass, ir Ilzes dēla tēvs. Dzintras lomā – vēlākā dziedātāja Maija Lūsēna, tolaik vēl Renskumberga.

title: Ночь без птиц

overview: Илзе, жена рыбака Яниса, полюбила дирижера местного хора Тобиаса. Янис уехал в город, а Илзе вышла замуж за дирижера и родила ему сына. И теперь, после двух лет скитаний, молодой рыбак возвращается в родной поселок, чтобы быть рядом с той, которую любил...

character: Jānis

character: Ilze

character: Dzintra

character: Tobiass

character: Krists

original_title: Nakts bez putniem


title: Vakara variants

overview: A 38-year-old teacher Anna in a small town is longing to have a child. The opportunity arises when she meets a cargo driver who travels through her town. He turns out to be married with a child in another town, so Anna doesn't wish to pursue the relationship, but the man is ready to change the course of his life.

title: Vakara variants

title: Вечерний вариант

overview: Главная героиня фильма приезжает работать по распределению в вечернюю школу небольшого провинциального города. Её современный подход к методике обучения не находит понимания среди новых коллег. Более того, невольно, она становится втянутой в сложные семейные отношения одного из своих учеников.

title: Vakara variants

overview: Mazpilsētas skolotājai Annai ir 38 gadi un viņa arvien biežāk aizdomājas, kā dzīvot tālāk. Viņa sapņo nevis par precēšanos, bet par bērnu, un dzīve piespēlē iespēju. Anna uzskata, ka attiecībām ar iebraucēju Viktoru nebūs turpinājuma, jo viņam citā pilsētā ir sieva un dēls, taču Viktors tik ļoti aizrāvies ar nejauši satikto sievieti, ka gatavs mainīt visu savu dzīvi. Annai jāizlemj, vai viņa grib savu laimi būvēt uz citu cilvēku nelaimes.

original_title: Vakara variants


title: Apbraucamais ceļš

overview: A group of people get cut off from the rest of the world during a snowstorm.

title: Apbraucamais ceļš

title: Apbraucamais ceļš

title: Объезд

overview: Во время разыгравшегося бурана в снежной ловушке оказались ехавшие на экскурсию сотрудники НИИ; дети, возвращающиеся с математической олимпиады; молодожены и их родители; некий начальник, собравшийся поохотиться, и другие. Экстремальная ситуация выдвинула неформального лидера - конструктора Райта Жагарса, принявшего меры к спасению людей...

character: Mara

original_title: Apbraucamais ceļš

title: Объезд


title: To the Edge of Danger

overview: A documentary about the role of a victim in crime.

title: To the Edge of Danger

title: Līdz bīstamai robežai

overview: Dokumentālais filma par upura lomu noziegumā.

title: До опасной черты

overview: Документальный фильм о роли жертвы в преступлении.

original_title: Līdz bīstamai robežai

title: До опасной черты

title: У опасной черты


title: Amateur

overview: For Victor, a bright but bored journalism student, the summer comes with bad news – his girlfriend Yvette is leaving for art school in Amsterdam. Victor desperately wants to go with her to live the bohemian life, but he has just three months to raise some money. He turns to a dangerous business to fulfil his dream

title: Amateur

original_title: Amatieris

title: Дилетант


title: Eight Stars

overview: This film tells about the most striking and tragic phenomenon during the development of self-awareness of the Latvian nation – the Latvian Riflemen. The first Daugavgrīva regiment, the second Riga, third Kurland, fifth Semigallian, sixth Tukums, seventh Bauska and eighth Valmiera regiments of Latvian Riflemen – this was Latvia before its statehood. The film is a historically chronological study beginning with the formation of the Riflemen battalions and their first battles until the end of the Civil War in Russia, when a large part of the Riflemen returned home to the recently established state of Latvia. This is a story about common people challenged by the Big Epoch that determined their lives.

title: Eight Stars

original_title: Astoņas zvaigznes


title: Laikmetu griežos

overview: A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.

title: Laikmetu griežos

title: Laikmetu griežos

title: На грани веков

overview: Латвия XVII столетия. Узнав о бесчинствах управляющего, молодой барон фон Брюммер оставляет учебу в Германии и возвращается на родину с тем, чтобы защитить своих крестьян. С согласия барона крестьяне расправляются с тираном. Но бунт подавлен, барон арестован, имение отдано другому владельцу.

job: Novel

job: Makeup Designer

original_title: Laikmetu griežos


title: Disgust

overview: 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 to change his life.

title: Disgust

job: Editor

original_title: Riebums


title: Wedding

overview: Wedding rituals and a love triangle.

title: Wedding

job: Director

original_title: Kāzas


title: Trapped by Borders

key: cmLaTagatpw

name: "Robežu gūstā" treileris | Kinoteātros no 7. augusta

overview: Captured by Borders is a film about travelling the world in old and transformed fire trucks. They have been in more than 100 countries, on five continents, driven for more than 100 000 kilometres. As a result, we were confident that no one could stop us. Until the fire trucks were blocked on the border between China and Vietnam. By one of the most difficult border crossings in the world. After almost eight years, a rescue expedition leaves Latvia to bring the fire trucks home. How will they fare? That’s what this adventure documentary is about.

title: Trapped by Borders

job: Sound Designer

job: Music

job: Producer

original_title: Robežu gūstā


title: A Handful of Bullets

overview: A teenage boy and his uncle compete for the love of a prostitute.

title: A Handful of Bullets

job: Director of Photography

job: Production Design

job: Sound Director

job: Writer

original_title: Sauja ložu

title: En handfull kulor

country: SE

title: Пригоршня патронов

production_countries: LV SE


title: Obsession

overview: Peter is just another peter, so very ordinary. He works at the office where colleagues make fun of him, the boss makes sexual advances and the sick mother harasses him at home. Step by step his life becomes completely unbearable. Once by a chance Peter happens to try magic mushrooms and this adventure turns into new move towards a different life.

title: Obsession

title: Apsēstība

overview: Peter is gewoon een andere peter, heel gewoon dus. Hij werkt op kantoor waar collega's hem uitlachen, de baas seksuele avances maakt en de zieke moeder hem thuis lastigvalt. Stap voor stap wordt zijn leven volledig ondraaglijk. Op een keer probeert Peter toevallig paddo's en dit avontuur verandert in een nieuwe stap naar een ander leven.

job: Costume Design

original_title: Apsēstība


title: The Water (Elements)

overview: Maria decides to go for a swim in the pool even though it looks deserted and she’s warned that the water is cold. When she gets into the pool she is faced with not only the frigid water, but with her other feelings as well. Like fear.

title: The Water (Elements)

job: Art Direction

job: Makeup Artist

original_title: Ūdens (Elementi)


title: Viktorijas bērni

overview: The protogonist of this documentary is Victoria - a lady who's become a person who provides emotional support to a multitude of children in her neighbourhood.

title: Viktorijas bērni

original_title: Viktorijas bērni


title: Fire (Elements)

overview: Even before Marija was born it was clear that she would be a person getting in trouble all the time. However, that’s not all. The most important thing is that she is often alongside firemen. Is it because things around her catch fire?

title: Fire (Elements)

original_title: Uguns (Elementi)


title: Three Men and a Fish Pond

name: Three Men and a Fish Pond [trailer] / Par Dzimtenīti

overview: Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.

title: Three Men and a Fish Pond

original_title: Par Dzimtenīti


title: Short Film About Life

overview: A story about life in two minutes.

title: Short Film About Life

original_title: Īsfilma par dzīvi


title: The Chimney

overview: Once upon a time there was a chimney. By the chimney - there were three houses. In the houses there were seven girls. All of them - blondes.

title: The Chimney

original_title: Skurstenis


title: Martin

overview: A film about the daily life of Martin, a handicapped child who will always be dependent on his parents. Ever since he was very small, Martin has had to get around in a wheelchair and has needed the constant help of an adult. Martin’s parents, Inga and Andris Skesteri, tell about their life, about their son’s character and about their hopes for the future.

title: Martin

title: Mārtiņš

overview: Een korte film over het dagelijks leven van Martin, een gehandicapt kind dat altijd afhankelijk zal zijn van zijn ouders. Al sinds hij heel klein was, moest Martin zich in een rolstoel verplaatsen en had hij voortdurend de hulp van een volwassene nodig. Martins ouders, Inga en Andris Skesteri, vertellen over hun leven, over het karakter van hun zoon en over hun hoop voor de toekomst.

original_title: Mārtiņš


title: Debt to Afghanistan

overview: There is an old saying attributed to Alexander the Great: he who will rule Afghanistan will rule the world. The film portrays “the roof of the Earth” and tracks the close links between this far-off country and Latvia.

title: Debt to Afghanistan

original_title: Parāds Afganistānai


title: Dear Juliet

overview: An ironic reportage about Shakespeare’s Juliet who has turned from a symbol of love into a victim of mass culture. The film was shot during a day in the backyard of the Cappelletti house in Verona.

title: Dear Juliet

title: Дорогая Джульетта

overview: Ироничный репортаж о Джульетте Шекспира, которая превратилась из символа любви в жертву массовой культуры. Фильм был снят за один день во дворе дома Капулетти в Вероне.

title: Dārgā Džuljeta

overview: Ironisks reportāža par Šekspīra Džuljetu, kura pārvērtusies no mīlestības simbola par masu kultūras upuri. Filma tika uzņemta vienas dienas laikā Kapuleti mājas pagalmā Veronā.

original_title: Dārgā Džuljeta


title: Hide-and-seek

overview: A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina’s husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has not only killed his wife, but he also tries to hide his true identity – notorious criminal Schmit.

title: Hide-and-seek

character: Oto

character: Regīna

character: Timmere

character: Arnolds

character: Osvalds

original_title: Paslēpes


title: Mothers, Daughters, Dresses

overview: A documentary about two 13-year-old girls, both obsessed with fashion and developing their personal style. One of the girls lives in a small town in Latvia, the other one - in Norway. How do their surroundings influence their acts of self-expression? And how do their mothers cope with the idea that their little daughters are becoming adults?

title: Mothers, Daughters, Dresses

title: Kleitas, mātes un meitas

overview: Een documentaire over twee 13-jarige meisjes, beiden geobsedeerd door mode en het ontwikkelen van hun persoonlijke stijl. Een van de meisjes woont in een klein stadje in Letland, de andere in Noorwegen. Hoe beïnvloedt hun omgeving hun daden van zelfexpressie? En hoe gaan hun moeders om met het idee dat hun dochtertjes volwassen worden?

original_title: Kleitas, mātes un meitas

production_countries: LV NO


title: Uztuptēva pēdējie piedzīvojumi Rīgā

overview: An elderly man from the countryside arrives in Riga and adventures ensue....

title: Uztuptēva pēdējie piedzīvojumi Rīgā

character: Uzuptēvs

character: Uzuptēva sieva

original_title: Uztuptēva pēdējie piedzīvojumi Rīgā


title: The Red Mist

overview: A propaganda film shot in Nazi-occupied Latvia (1941-44). It outlines the horrors the country experienced during the Soviet occupation the year prior (remembered now as Annus Horriblis) and includes historical footage. However, to twist the narrative to suit its ideological means, the film also tries to influence the public perception of the Jewish people, stating they were appreciative of the Soviet invasion and happily took part in their attrocities. The film was dubbed in over 20 languages and distributed in other Nazi-invaded countries.

title: The Red Mist

title: Красный туман

overview: Советские войска прибыли в Ригу в 1940 году. Новое правительство. Выборы в Народный Сейм. Депортации. Немецкие войска прибыли в Ригу в 1941 году. Фильм «Красный туман» послужил оправданием немецкой пропаганды, в том числе выражающей антисемитскую идеологию.

title: Sarkanā migla

character: (narration)

original_title: Sarkanā migla

title: Roter Nebel


title: Your Happiness

overview: An inspector is torn between her conviction of there being a need to reconstruct a factory, and a love interest who asks of her not to do that in order for him to further his career.

title: Your Happiness

title: Твоё счастье

title: Tava laime

original_title: Tava laime

title: Твоё счастье


title: Jam

overview: "In the world of the fly," says biologist Uexkull, "we find only fly things. In the world of the sea urchin we find only sea urchin things."  This is the Colonel’s story and here you will find only Colonel things.

title: Jam

title: Sviests

character: The Colonel

character: Raimonds

character: Rabbit

original_title: Sviests


title: Working Class Ballet

overview: The European championship football madness, drunken "experts" at the provincial stadium, the backstage of National team, raving fans at the streets of Paris and Lisbon. Football is a sport and entertainment through possibly there is more to the game. In the film "Working Class Ballet" philosophers, linguists, neuropsychologist and football coach are contemplating on the parallels between football and drama of life, forming an unusual tale on what football is or could be.

title: Working Class Ballet

title: Darbaļaužu balets

overview: Futbols var būt kas vairāk nekā vienpadsmit bumbu trenkājoši nejēgas vai miljoni alus dzērāju pie TV ekrāniem. Filma iezīmē vairāku nozīmīgu teorētiķu domas par futbola un dzīves drāmas līdzību, raksturojot tā ētiskos un estētiskos aspektus, kā arī neatņemamo saikni starp mūsdienu sabiedrību.

original_title: Darbaļaužu balets


title: Latviešu strēlnieka stāsts

overview: A story of a Latvian rifleman between two revolutions.

title: Latviešu strēlnieka stāsts

title: Повесть о латышском стрелке

title: Latviešu strēlnieka stāsts

original_title: Latviešu strēlnieka stāsts

title: Повесть о латышском стрелке


title: Ilze

overview: A political film based in Latvian countryside in 1947.

title: Ilze

title: Илзе

overview: 1947 год. Одна из латвийских деревень. Илзе горячо любит Рудиса, хотя он и сын кулака и о нём ходят разные слухи. Илзе знает, что Рудис ушёл от отца и вступил в колхоз, работал хорошо, стал бригадиром и подал заявление в партию. Он настоял на том, чтобы жена вступила в комсомол, а теперь предлагает ей ехать в город учиться. Между тем в колхозе орудуют какие-то скрытые враги: убит парторг Рутиньш, оклеветан лучший бригадир, происходят всякие неполадки…

title: Ilze

original_title: Ilze


title: A House With No Exit

overview: An artist and his lover get trapped in their summer house by a gang of convicts.

title: A House With No Exit

title: Дом без выхода

overview: Для художника Старо связь с медсестрой Яной, матерью-одиночкой, стала необходимой отдушиной от семьи и ремесла, которое незаметно подменило творчество. Однажды теплым осенним днем герои едут на дачу и становятся пленниками бежавших из тюрьмы преступников. Безнадежно больной главарь беглецов перед смертью пытается доказать своим пленникам, что ради сохранения жизни все люди способны на самые низкие поступки. Однако Старо находит в себе силы противостоять бандиту...

title: Māja bez izejas

original_title: Māja bez izejas


title: Maximum Headroom

overview: Members of a class of the 1980s hold an annual gathering. All together spend one night remembering the passions and hopes of youth and realising what has been achieved or missed.

title: Maximum Headroom

original_title: Augstuma robeža


title: Never, Never, Ever!

overview: John is arrested on his 40th birthday, just on the day when he has realized that everything he has been doing before has increased the absurdity and senselessness of this world.

title: Never, Never, Ever!

original_title: NeGribu, neGribu, neGribu!...


title: I'm Buying Your Husband

overview: On the eve of their 20th wedding anniversary, a wife finds out her husband has a lover who wants to buy him from her. The wife agrees.

title: I'm Buying Your Husband

original_title: Pērku jūsu vīru!


title: The Fifth Hamlet

overview: What does the question “to be or not to be?” mean? 86 year-old director Olģerts Kroders stages his fourth production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Valmiera Drama Theatre. The theatre is more than merely his occupation, for he not only works there but also spends all of his time in it. The film depicts his routine and the rehearsal process up until the premiere, and provokes a dialogue using the four actors who have all played Hamlet in the different productions. Kroders’s life and the lives of the actors tell the history of Latvia and the fates of different generations.

title: The Fifth Hamlet

character: Self

original_title: Piektais Hamlets


title: Lohengrin from Varka Kru

overview: A creative a portrait of Latvian luger and Olympic medal winner, Martins Rubenis, who won the first Latvia's Winter Olympic medal of the games in Turin in 2006. Apart from his success in sports, in the circles of contemporary alternative culture he is known as DJ Betons from the association Varka Kru (Varka – from Russian "boiling", Kru – from English "crew"). Like the medieval knight Lohengrin, Martins Rubenis arrives in his luge to fight a battle - with an adversary, with himself, with time and the world.

title: Lohengrin from Varka Kru

job: Co-Producer

original_title: Loengrīns no Varka Kru


title: The Discomfited

overview: Valmiera is a town in Latvia. Valmiera’s Boss’ favourite car has been stolen, and his cousin, who has been in charge of guarding it – shot. The toughest member of the Valmiera gang – Mārtiņš – has been ordered to deal with this mission in the rival town of Liepāja. Little does he know, that the initiator of this mess is right there within their own gang.

title: The Discomfited

original_title: Svešajā ostā

production_countries: LV LT


title: Vasaras raibumiņi uz skaistās K. vaiga

overview: Aivars Freimanis' documentary consisting of small episodes from a trip to Kurzeme.

title: Vasaras raibumiņi uz skaistās K. vaiga

original_title: Vasaras raibumiņi uz skaistās K. vaiga


title: Is It Easy...? After 20 Years

overview: 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 a tremendous success for a Latvian film. It was even regarded as "the first bird of Perestroika".  In 1998 the follow up film was made. It was extremely interesting to find out how the new economic system after the fall of the Soviet regime in Latvia had changed the lives of the persons filmed 10 years ago. "Is it easy to be...? After 10 years" also got an international recognition.  The question 20 years later was- does anything change in this world or perhaps there are things that never change?! What has become of these brave youngsters who had once helped to destroy the Soviet system and who are now the generation of forty?

title: Is It Easy...? After 20 Years

original_title: Vai viegli...?


title: The Last Bearslayer

overview: Latvia is governed by a strange ruler with a pig’s snout who calls himself Mr. Snout. Loath to being filmed himself and to filmmaking in general, he has locked up all positive heroes in an effort to prevent filming from taking place. The few survivors hope for the return of the Latvian folk hero Bear-slayer, who vanished into the river many centuries ago. In these harsh times, Bear-slayer rises from the water again to fight Mr. Snout. This film is a criticism of how the inaction of the Latvian government has brought Latvian filmmaking close to extinction.

title: The Last Bearslayer

original_title: Pēdējais Lāčplēsis


title: Seekers

overview: This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs others on how to find them. Since they started in 2009, they’ve helped find more than 90 people who had gone missing. It follows volunteers during training and on a search mission – theirs is a nerve-wracking task as in many cases they only locate the expired body of the missing person.

title: Seekers

original_title: Meklētāji


title: Singing Grandmas

overview: Three elderly ladies - Maiga, Velta and Mrs.Tone - meet every Tuesday at a Culture House in a suburb of Riga to take part in rehearsals with 40-odd other ladies of the "Granny Choir". Some of them might be living more in the past than in the present, but there is one extraordinary feature common to all. Despite their age, low income and health issues, they appear to know how to grow old with dignity, a sense of humour and, as it seems, even joy.

title: Singing Grandmas

title: Vecmāmiņu koris

original_title: Vecmāmiņu koris


title: Blueberry Spirits

overview: Blueberry Spirits is a poetic documentary about a Roma family that spends its summers in the Latvian forests, picking berries to make a living. While harvesting the fruits of the forest, they reflect on their identity as a group by sharing ghost stories.

title: Blueberry Spirits

original_title: Melleņu gari


title: Window

overview: Mr. Schmidt, a young man who is recovering from a recent nervous breakdown, arrives at a country manor. As he waits for the governess Mrs. Rosenbaum, Schmidt is scared by the gardener but then meets a bored, young woman, Vera, who kindly accompanies him through the house. Vera tells Schmidt about a great tragedy. Precisely three years ago, members of her aunt’s family passed away, but the bodies were never found. Mrs. Rosenbaum does not believe in the death of her relatives and continues to wait for their return. Coming close to madness, Mr. Schmidt escapes from the mansion, and the missing family members return from an actual hunting expedition. As it turns out, Miss Vera makes up legends because of boredom.

title: Window

title: Logs

job: Original Story

original_title: Logs


title: Hedgehogs and The City

overview: 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 survival strategies and learn to earn money.

title: Hedgehogs and The City

title: Eži un lielpilsēta

job: Animation

original_title: Eži un lielpilsēta

title: Os Porcos-Espinhos e a Cidade

country: PT


title: Flames on the Soil

overview: A young Latvian boy's life faces changes as his country is occupied by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

title: Flames on the Soil

title: Mana zeme deg

overview: Het leven van een jonge Letse jongen verandert nu zijn land wordt bezet door de Sovjet-Unie en nazi-Duitsland.

original_title: Mana zeme deg


title: Castratus the Boar

name: Castratus the Boar / Kastrāts Kuilis trailer

overview: Small town resident Valters breeds his pigs and sings in the local church choir. His childhood secret however, prevents him from integrating in the community. After the death of his father he tries to establish contact with Aija. This is not the beginning of an ordinary young couple’s love story.

title: Castratus the Boar

title: Castratus the Boar

original_title: Kastrāts Kuilis


title: Crispy

overview: In the snowy forest dwarfs are busy as Christmas Eve is approaching! Dwarf girl bakes gingerbread cookies and shapes one into a small man – Crispy. The little gingerbread man comes alive and is very curious. In the big world he will not only have fun adventures and face danger, but he will also discover the wonders of the Season...

title: Crispy

title: Kraukšķītis

overview: In het besneeuwde bos zijn dwergen druk bezig terwijl kerstavond nadert! Dwergmeisje bakt peperkoek koekjes en vormt er een kleine man van – Crispy. Het kleine peperkoek mannetje komt tot leven en is erg nieuwsgierig. In de grote wereld beleeft hij niet alleen leuke avonturen en wordt hij geconfronteerd met gevaar, maar ontdekt hij ook de wonderen van het seizoen...

job: Visual Effects

original_title: Kraukšķītis


title: Piglet's Journey

name: Piglet's Journey/Ruksīša ceļojums trailer

overview: A story about a little piglet who prefers sweet, lazy sleep over engaging in any housework. He gets offended when his friends ask for help. Chatty magpie tells the little piglet of rich and generous relatives in the forest. Piglet believes the magpie and goes into the forest for the promised better life. But the dream turns into illusion and Piglet’s trip turns into a dangerous affair.

title: Piglet's Journey

title: Ruksīša ceļojums

overview: Een verhaal over een klein biggetje dat de voorkeur geeft aan een zoete, luie slaap boven huishoudelijk werk. Hij voelt zich beledigd als zijn vrienden om hulp vragen. De spraakzame ekster vertelt het kleine biggetje over rijke en genereuze familieleden in het bos. Knorretje gelooft de ekster en gaat het bos in voor het beloofde betere leven. Maar de droom verandert in een illusie en de reis van Knorretje verandert in een gevaarlijke aangelegenheid.

title: Ruksīša ceļojums

overview: Pēc Dzidras Rinkules-Zemzares poēmas "Kā ruksītis ciemos gāja" motīviem – stāsts par Ruksīti, kurš labprātāk saldi paguļ, nekā iesaistās mājas darbos. Draugu neizpratne viņu aizvaino. Pļāpīgā žagata pastāsta Ruksītim par bagātajiem un dāsnajiem radiem mežā. Ruksītis, ilgi nedomādams, pamet dzimto sētu un dodas turp, kur dzīve būs tik bezrūpīga un skaista! Taču burvīgais sapnis izrādās mānīgs, un Ruksīša ceļojums drīz vien pārvēršas bīstamā dēkā.

original_title: Ruksīša ceļojums


title: Little Ruddy

overview: This is the second film based on themes from Margarita Stāraste’s fairy-tales. Rosie is a red colouring pencil, who, together with the other pencils, colours in the author’s story as it progresses. Their work continues until the moment they are interrupted by the appearance of an uninvited fly. Chasing the fly, Rosie ends up with in the land of dew drops, grassmen, meadow maidens, and other forest creatures. He has stepped into a fairy-tale. There, Rosie enthusiastically helps out with jobs in the forest; however, in the meantime, the story has become a bit unusual without the colour red...

title: Little Ruddy

original_title: Sārtulis


title: The Dust

name: "PUTEKLIS" (The Dust) trailer, director Dace Rīdūze

overview: Small dust creatures live on the bookshelf and find the world around them to be their home. One of them, a little wise Dusty, suddenly encounters a boy. Their friendship turns the boring everyday life into a great adventure...

title: The Dust

title: Le Grain de poussière

overview: Dès qu’un petit garçon quitte sa chambre, des petits grains de poussière sortent de leur cachette et mènent la belle vie.

original_title: Puteklis

title: Dust


title: I Want To See The Dwarves!

overview: Colourful jungle, dancing dwarves and a pirate girl Vanessa. It is a story of a regular lovely girl, and it makes no difference that she is blind! An optimistic and inspiring animation about learning and accepting our natural differences, voiced by Vanessa herself.

title: I Want To See The Dwarves!

original_title: Es gribu redzēt rūķīšus!


title: Half-a-Bear

overview: Sometimes we got lost. And then we have to be found again, so that no one is sad.

title: Half-a-Bear

original_title: Puslācis

title: Half a Bear


title: The Witch's Button

overview: A jolly, care-free, slightly absent-minded Witch loses her magic button. What would the world have looked like if the witch hadn’t found it again!?

title: The Witch's Button

original_title: Raganas poga


title: The Prickly

overview: Once upon a time an old married couple lived in love and happiness, but they did not have any children until one day the old man found a small hedgehog in cabbages. So the fairy-tale about the endless power of love and faith begins, the fairy-tale about the Prickly.

title: The Prickly

original_title: Eža kažociņš


title: Black Box

overview: In Territory, untouched by globalisation, it's only strange individuals who are scurrying around. One of them – Hoggie – a creature of unknown origin. In search of a new brand Flying Hedgehog Ball arrives to the Territory. After various misunderstandings, an image of Hoggie is published on magazine covers all over the world.  It's all because of Black Box.

title: Black Box

title: Melnā kaste

original_title: Melnā kaste


title: Clara & Rubinstein

overview: One day a common man finds himself in a hell of family life. How did he get there? It all started with such a romance – they met in a museum of contemporary art…

title: Clara & Rubinstein

original_title: Clara un Rubinšteins


title: Tale of the Palace

overview: 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?

title: Tale of the Palace

original_title: Pasaka par pili


title: National Hero

overview: 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.

title: National Hero

title: Vai Rīga jau gatava?

original_title: Vai Rīga jau gatava?


title: Three Suns

overview: From a refugee of the WWII to president – that's the story of Vaira Vike-Freiberga. Losing her motherland and coming back to it. Latvian, refugee, emigrant, wife, mother, professor, scientist, president.

title: Three Suns

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Trejādas saules


title: Singing Hugo And His Incredible Adventures

name: Singing HUGO and His Incredible Adventures / OFFICIAL TRAILER

overview: When a chicken is kidnapped by two thieves, a lively adventure full of humor and with a surprising twist begin.

title: Dziedošais Hugo un viņa neticamie piedzīvojumi

overview: Vista Hugo dzīvo nomaļā vietā un sapņo kļūt par dziedātāju, bet liktenis to aizved materiālisma pasaulē, kur viņai jācīnās, lai izdzīvotu un lidotu.

overview: Wanneer een kip wordt ontvoerd door twee dieven, begint een levendig avontuur vol humor en met een verrassende wending.

character: (voice)

job: Editor

country: Latvia


title: Hares' Big Day

overview: A lazy little bunny is awaken by a sudden hustle and bustle one spring morning. Going to the henhouse for eggs turns into a dangerous adventure. In order to save Easter, the little bunny has to overcome both - his laziness and fear, and to believe in the miraculous presence of the sun bunny.

title: Hares' Big Day

title: Le Grand jour du lièvre

overview: Pâques approche à grands pas. Toute la famille Lapin travaille dur afin que les œufs soient prêts à temps !

job: Director

original_title: Zaķu lielā diena


title: The Case in Potassium Park

overview: Ģirts and his friend plan an excursion to a mystical place, the abandoned Potassium Park. In order to get the family car, Ģirts lies and says he is going fishing, so his parents compel him to take his younger brother along. Ģirts’ friend backs out, and he is forced to go fishing after all. Bitter about the failed plan, Ģirts is mean, but his brother’s joy over the first fish caught is a self-revelation of his pervasive injustice towards his younger brother. As a gift, Ģirts shows him the secret entrance to Potassium Park. The brothers head off on an exciting foray through the abandoned and mysterious structures, until they accidentally uncover a box of explosives that tests their newly-developed camaraderie.

title: The Case in Potassium Park

job: Sound Designer

job: Sound Recordist

job: First Assistant Director

original_title: Notikums Kālija parkā


title: Introduction To Epilogue

overview: "Introduction to Epilogue" is a colorful, allegorical film about the fear of death. Life will always last a lifetime and it will always end in death. And the end will always be a new beginning.

title: Introduction To Epilogue

title: Ievads epilogam

job: Director of Photography

job: Music

job: Producer

original_title: Ievads epilogam


title: Wild Beast

overview: In the near future of 2012, the government asks for each citizen to have 30 Lats on their credit card. Anybody not having this amount of money is deemed to be maliciously poor and arrested.

title: Wild Beast

job: Writer

job: Sound Director

job: Sound

job: Makeup Designer

original_title: Baltais zvērs


title: Roof Man

overview:
The protagonist of this documentary film is not a sleepwalker. He is not a reckless adventurer. Or a madman. Or a bird - a man with wings. There are things he may lose. He has a big family - sons, a wife, dogs, a house, a job. But Eriks Rugens, the protagonist of this documentary film, has a courageous dream that has become a reality - climbing roofs.
 He has managed to overcome the natural human fear of height. Climbing the roofs is his hobby and work to be closer to the sky, on the spires of churches, on top of the high-rises. From where he looks at the daily and street life with different eyes.

title: Roof Man

title: Jumtu cilvēks

overview: De hoofdpersoon van deze documentairefilm is geen slaapwandelaar. Hij is geen roekeloze avonturier. Of een gek. Of een vogel - een man met vleugels. Er zijn dingen die hij kan verliezen. Hij heeft een groot gezin: zonen, een vrouw, honden, een huis, een baan. Maar Eriks Rugens, de hoofdpersoon van deze documentaire, heeft een moedige droom die werkelijkheid is geworden: daken beklimmen.  Hij is erin geslaagd de natuurlijke menselijke hoogtevrees te overwinnen. Het beklimmen van de daken is zijn hobby en werk om dichter bij de hemel te zijn, op de torenspitsen van kerken, bovenop de hoogbouw. Van waaruit hij met andere ogen naar het dagelijkse leven en het straatleven kijkt.

original_title: Jumtu cilvēks


title: Honka

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

title: Honka

job: Art Direction

original_title: Hoņka


title: Springtime on Vārnu Street

overview: A rap-style musical animation about the adventures of working-class children in Rīga at the beginning of the 20th century – about their first loves, troubles and joys.

title: Springtime on Vārnu Street

original_title: Pavasaris Vārnu ielā


title: Sounds Under the Sun

overview: Composers are regular people – they drive public transport, do sports, pay their bills. And still – they are very different as they are able to comprehend sound.  The documentary film Sounds Under the Sun is an inspiring cinematic journey all over the world to meet some of the world-famous contemporary classical music composers. Visiting Alaskan forests, skyscrapers in Tokyo, and war zone in Georgia, the film gives a glimpse of how the composers share their struggle to create music from the moment of sonic creation till the moment when their music is interpreted for public (the film features composers Sir John Tavener from the UK, Leonid Desyatnikov from Russia, Giya Kancheli from Georgia, Dobrinka Tabakova from Bulgaria, John Luther Adams from the USA, and Ko Matsushita from Japan, and one of the world’s best youth choirs, Kamēr..., from Latvia).

title: Sounds Under the Sun

original_title: Pa-saules skaņa

title: Klänge unter der Sonne

title: Звуки под солнцем

title: Zvuky Pod Sluncem

country: CZ

title: Pasaules skaņa


title: Viestur Kairish Comes Out Of The Woods

name: Viesturs Kairišs iznāk no meža (2018) - TĪZERIS

overview: A tragicomic tale about the relationship of Guna and the twice older writer Gints.  Guna has lost her job, but Gints hasn’t written anything in years. Whilst running away from an unsatisfactory relationship and the lack of creative self-expression, Guna gets obsessed with the theatre performance “Odyssey” by the famous director Viestur Kairish and begins to mix reality with theatre. Guna tries to start a new life, but her fantasy world doesn’t allow her to be a part of reality anymore.

title: Viestur Kairish Comes Out Of The Woods

job: Production Design

job: Costume Design

original_title: Viesturs Kairišs iznāk no meža


title: Sprīdītis Amerikā vai Does it Look Like Happiness?

overview: A documentary about Latvians in the United States.


title: Tiger the Cat

overview: A little boy neglects his toys and treats his best friend - a red kitten - just as badly. While inventing more cruel games, the boy happens to annoy the magician, who in anger turns the boy into a doll, and the kitten grows into a wild tiger in the eyes of his tormentor. It is not easy to escape the beast and make everything fall into place again.

title: Tiger the Cat

title: Tīģeris Ņau-Ņau

title: Тигр Мяу-Мяу

original_title: Tīģeris Ņau-Ņau


title: Bums un Piramidons

overview: A film about a hunter and his loyal sausage dog who are always ready to help any living being who needs it. The hunter's gun shoots carrots, pine cones, or mushrooms - whatever's needed for a given rescue operation.

title: Bums un Piramidons

title: Bums un Piramidons

title: Бум и Пирамидон

job: Animation

original_title: Bums un Piramidons


title: Ragainais māls

overview: The characters of this film are a ceramic artist from Latgale, Antons Šmulāns, and his little clay devils.

title: Ragainais māls

title: Ragainais māls

title: Рогатая глина

original_title: Ragainais māls


title: Riga: 10 Years After...

overview: A story of a city living in the rhytm of youth, told through four people who are part of the new generation - who've grown up after the regaining of independence from the Soviet Union.

title: Riga: 10 Years After...

original_title: Rīga. 10 gadus pēc...

production_countries: FR LV


title: Izpostītā ligzda

overview: A family drama based on the short story "The Edge of the Abyss" by Raimonds Trasuns.

title: Izpostītā ligzda

job: Novel

original_title: Izpostītā ligzda


title: Sky Island

overview: A documentary essay about an unusual 17-year-old who lives on an island in a marsh and draws his life.

title: Sky Island

original_title: Debesu sala


title: The Rape of Europe

overview: An artist. A painter. The enfant terrible of the old Soviet and now post-communist 'petit bourgeois' society. A mother of three, no husband, and every child from a different father. The children's ages range from 4 to 20 years. The artist herself is 43 at this time. A happy and free person at all times under any regime. A young, beautiful, photogenic being. Temperamental, garrulous and witty.

title: The Rape of Europe

original_title: Eiropas nolaupīšana


title: The Sleep Train

overview: An animation by Roze Stiebra, Lielais Kristaps award for Best animation film 1998.

title: The Sleep Train

title: Поезд сновидений

overview: Экранизация колыбельной песни про поезд сновидений, который едет сквозь тьму.

job: Author

original_title: Miega vilcieniņš


title: Between the Sky and the Earth

overview: The relationship between humans and a river throughout the seasons.

title: Between the Sky and the Earth

job: Editor

job: Director

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: Starp debesīm un zemi – Augšdaugava


title: Mischiefs I - Winter

overview: The first part of the puppet series "Rezgalības" about the adventures of a boy named Pēteris. The first part tells about events taking place during winter — trapping a cat and a mouse in a boot, playing in the snow.

title: Mischiefs I - Winter

title: Rezgalības I - ziema

job: Co-Writer

original_title: Rezgalības I - ziema


title: The Head of Intelligence Service

overview: A documentary about Jānis Bērziņš - a Soviet politician and military intelligence officer of Latvian ethnicity.

title: The Head of Intelligence Service

title: Начальник разведки. Воспоминания. Документы

overview: Документальный фильм о Янисе Берзиньше - советском политическом деятеле и военном разведчике латышского происхождения.

title: Izlūkdienesta priekšnieks. Atmiņas. Dokumenti

job: Director of Photography


title: The Dream

overview: A homeless New York man (looking very much like Charlie Chaplin) dreams about getting himself a warm room and food, and tries various things to fulfill his dream - yet something always goes wrong.

title: The Dream

title: Sapnis

title: Sapnis

title: Мечта

overview: Бездомный житель Нью-Йорка (очень похожий на Чарли Чаплина) мечтает найти себе тёплую комнату и еду и пытается разными способами осуществить свою мечту, но что-то всегда идёт не так.

job: Story

job: Music

original_title: Sapnis

title: Le rêve

country: FR


title: Bimini

overview: Based on Heinrich Heine’s poem, this film traces humanity’s longing for beauty and fulfilment, as expressed through a song about the legendary island of Bimini and its magical well whose waters revive a person’s strength and youth.

title: Bimini

title: Бимини

overview: Герой фильма - художник, путешественник и любимец публики. Достигнув старости, он узнаёт из песни служанки-индианки о существовании острова Бимини, где находится волшебный источник, исполняющий желания. Собрав на свой корабль и других нуждающихся, путешественник отправляется на поиски...

title: Bimini

job: Writer

original_title: Bimini


title: Wanted: A Man

overview: A sequel-of-sorts to "Sieviete, kuru gaida?", where the authors focussed on the role of a woman in society. Now their turning their focus on men.

title: Wanted: A Man

title: Meklēju vīrieti

title: Meklēju vīrieti

overview: Een soort vervolg op 'Sieviete, kuru gaida?', waarin de auteurs zich concentreerden op de rol van een vrouw in de samenleving. Nu richten ze hun aandacht op mannen.

title: В поисках мужчины

overview: Своеобразное продолжение «Женщину ждут?», где авторы акцентировали внимание на роли женщины в обществе. Теперь они сосредоточили свое внимание на мужчинах.

job: Sound Director

original_title: Meklēju vīrieti


title: Purva bridējs - Uldis Pūcītis

overview: A TV documentary about Latvian actor Uldis Pūcītis, featuring fragments from many of his films ("Swap Treader", "Four White Shirts" and others), as well as stories by people who knew him - actors and directors, former lovers and classmates.

title: Purva bridējs - Uldis Pūcītis

character: Voiceover

original_title: Purva bridējs - Uldis Pūcītis


title: Secrets of Paris

name: Secrets of Paris /Parīzes noslēpumi trailer

name: "Secrets of Paris"director Jānis Cimmermanis

overview: Electricity goes off at the Eiffel tower security guard’s office. The guard tries to repair it, but he doesn't succeed, so he calls for “The Rescue Team”.  The team arrives in their yellow plane and start the rescue operation by fixing cables. Initially, it works out well, but then the light suddenly goes off in all city of Paris, and the portrait of Mona Lisa disappears from the darkened Louvre Museum. However, things will work out fine in the end!

title: Secrets of Paris

job: Producer

original_title: Parīzes noslēpumi


title: Master's Secret Life

name: Master's secret life/Meistara slepenā dzīve trailer

name: "Master's secret life" director Jānis Cimmermanis

overview: A mysterious memory game about the Master – Arnolds Burovs (1915-2006), the founder of puppet animation in Latvia – retelling his life’s story through archival footage, film imagery and newly-created animation, which transports the Master to the dreamland of Bimini.

title: Master's Secret Life

title: Meistara slepenā dzīve

overview: Een mysterieus geheugenspel over de Meester – Arnolds Burovs (1915-2006), de grondlegger van de poppenanimatie in Letland – die zijn levensverhaal opnieuw vertelt aan de hand van archiefbeelden, filmbeelden en nieuw gemaakte animatie, die de Meester naar het dromenland van Bimini transporteert.

original_title: Meistara slepenā dzīve


title: London Holidays

name: London holidays /Londonas brīvdienas trailer

name: "Londonas brīvdienas" (London holidays) trailer, director Jānis Cimmermanis

overview: The men of The Rescue Team are finally on holidays and are traveling on their yellow boat through the English Channel.  The satellite phone is ringing; London's famous Big Ben has broken down, so The Rescue Team rush to fix it.  Morning comes and Big Ben is working again! However, when its time to ring comes around, the solution found by The Rescue Team is a great surprise to the Queen of England...

title: London Holidays

original_title: Londonas brīvdienas


title: The Esperance of Will

name: The Esperance Of Will /Cerība dzīvot trailer

name: "The Esperance of will" director Rene Turtledove

overview: When the last of her friends has been buried, an elderly lady is on her way home from the graveyard. Her own memories play out in front of her eyes all over the city. At the local coffin store, she has to face a choice – a coffin or an old sledge. She says her goodbyes and takes off towards the nearby forest.  It isn’t easy to make death charming and almost jovial, but director Rene Turtledove accomplishes it in this animation short about an elderly woman who has buried one too many friends and decides there are better ways to spend her money and her time than on the local coffin shop.

title: The Esperance of Will

original_title: Cerība dzīvot


title: The Latvian

overview: A testament to the power of film – a witty summary of the entire history of Latvia from ancient to modern times in eight minutes.

title: The Latvian

title: Latvietis

overview: Vienkāršā lauku būdiņā ar salmu jumtu dzīvo vienkāršais latviešu puisis ar salmu krāsas matiņiem un pelēkās nātna drēbītēs. Sēž, strinkšķina koklīti, bet tad pēkšņi viņa būdiņa nokļūst pasaules vēstures griežu epicentrā. Ar minimāliem izteiksmes līdzekļiem deviņās minūtēs asprātīgi izstāstīta visa Latvijas vēsture no vissenākajiem laikiem līdz mūsdienām. Spilgtas ironiskas detaļas, dažādu laikmetu zīmes, parādības un melodijas spēj dažās sekundēs iezīmēt veselu desmitgadi vai pat simtgadi.

job: Visual Effects

original_title: Latvietis


title: Šambala

overview: A documentary about people who're just like us.

title: Šambala

original_title: Šambala


title: Māra

overview: This creative documentary tells the story of women in art – what she has to sacrifice in her personal life and what choices have to be made in order to gain success in her career.  The film explores life of artist, by following theatre director’s Mara Kimele's fighting relationships with her despotic grandmother Anna Lacis (widely known as Asya, whose life is closely tied to the names of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brech), cynical son Peteris (who is played by an actor) and work while she stages  F. Dostoevsky's “Crime and Punishment”. Every character of film is an act. But does that make them any less real? And what is real in the world of art? Apart from its human character's, the film also has an animated one – the horse, who came into life through the first letter Mara wrote to her grand mother and has been following her ever since.

title: Māra

character: "Māra Ķimele"

character: Pēteris Ķimelis

job: Set Designer

original_title: Māra


title: A Sister's Journey

overview: An animation film based on Latvian folk songs, significant due to its artistic style which was far removed from the social realism which was the only accepted form of artistic expression in the Soviet Union at the time, and also due to its undertones related to national identity.

title: A Sister's Journey

title: Man vienai māsiņai

title: Ай, милая сестрица!

overview: История большой семьи, где долгое время рождались только мальчики. Но однажды родилась девочка, которая стала всеобщей любимицей и хозяюшкой в доме.

original_title: Man vienai māsiņai

title: Мне одной сестренке


title: Magic Bird

overview: Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.

title: Magic Bird

title: Brīnumputns

title: Волшебная птица

overview: Двое умных братьев отправляются в поход за волшебной птицей, чтобы вернуть зрение слепому отцу. За ними увязывается и младший братец-дурачок, взяв с собой только красивое перо и ручного белого кролика...

original_title: Brīnumputns


title: Rainy Day

overview: A little boy sees a thirsty camel in his picture book and imagines bringing him a rain cloud.

title: Rainy Day

title: Lietaina diena

title: Дождливый день

original_title: Lietaina diena


title: Green Fairy Tale

overview: An animation film based on a story by Imants Ziedonis about the relationship between a human and nature.

title: Green Fairy Tale

title: Zaļā pasaka

title: Зеленая сказка

overview: У Зиедониса много разноцветных сказок, у этой зеленый цвет имеет самый что ни на есть гринписовский смысл.

original_title: Zaļā pasaka

title: Zala pasaka

title: Зеленая сказка


title: Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion

overview:
A story about the fearless Brer Rabbit and the greedy, brazen and boastful Boss Lion who uses the gullibility of the little brothers to rule over their simple lives. Rabbit comes up with a brave plan and a way to defeat the horrible Lion with his resourcefulness.
 The final film of film studio Dauka.

title: Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion

title: Как Братец Кролик победил льва

original_title: Kā Brālītis Trusītis uzvarēja Lauvu


title: Did You Say Something?

overview: One day, World order is disrupted by the interference of talking objects in the independent sphere of People. Accepting the new order is the wisest decision that People can make. An Ashanti folk story.

title: Did You Say Something?

title: Ты что-то сказал?

title: Vai tu ko teici?

original_title: Vai tu ko teici?


title: Before All Waters Go To Sleep

overview: An animated lullaby for children by Latvian poet Māris Čaklais.

title: Before All Waters Go To Sleep

title: До того как заснут все реки

job: Musician

original_title: Pirms aizmieg ūdeņi visi


title: Tipa the Ant

overview: An animation film about a little ant who leaves the house for the first time in her life and tries to find out what the sun is.

title: Tipa the Ant

title: Муравьишка Типа

overview: Как Муравьишка пытался узнать, что такое солнце.

title: Skudriņa Tipa

job: Idea

original_title: Skudriņa Tipa

title: Муравьишка Типа


title: Both Ends White, the Mid is Green

overview: A musical tale about the seasons.

title: Both Ends White, the Mid is Green

title: Abi gali balti, viducis zaļš

title: Оба конца белых, серединка зеленая

original_title: Abi gali balti, viducis zaļš

title: Края белые - середина зеленая


title: How the Wolf Did Not Eat the Piglet

overview: A story about the Piglet who taught a lesson to the evil Wolf.

title: How the Wolf Did Not Eat the Piglet

title: Kā vilks neapēda sivēntiņu

title: Как волк не съел поросенка

overview: Как-то раз серый волк лежал в лесу на мягкой зеленой травке, как вдруг заметил милого и улыбающегося поросенка, собирающего в корзинку ягоды. Конечно, земляника не могла заинтересовать этого большого хищного зверя, а вот поросенок приковал все внимание волка, который начал с гостем разговор...

title: Kā vilks neapēda sivēntiņu

overview: Een verhaal over het biggetje dat de boze Wolf een lesje leerde.

original_title: Kā vilks neapēda sivēntiņu

title: Как волк не съел поросёнка


title: Balāde par Kurbadu

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

title: Balāde par Kurbadu

title: Баллада о Курбаде

overview: Жила в деревне женщина, и не могла она иметь детей. И вот однажды волшебница поманила её к реке. А там прямо в руки выпрыгнула из воды рыба необыкновенная и сказала, что если женщина её приготовит и съест, то будут у неё дети, только нельзя, чтобы кто-то ещё эту рыбу пробовал...

original_title: Balāde par Kurbadu


title: How a Baby Comes Into the World

overview: A film for children about how a baby comes into this world. The sexual revolution happened in Latvia thanks to Māris Putniņš, an artist and soon-to-be among the most visible Latvian puppet animation specialists. In 1989, he published a series of drawings showing that babies aren’t brought by storks or found in cabbage patches in the famous children’s magazine Zīlīte. This popular-science film by Roze Stiebra recreates this long-kept-from-children truth on the big screen.

title: How a Baby Comes Into the World

title: Kā bērniņš nāk pasaulē

title: Как малыш приходит в этот мир

original_title: Kā bērniņš nāk pasaulē


title: Gold of the Tigers

overview: A mythical dream about a person's attempt to escape from the labyrinth of irresponsability.

title: Gold of the Tigers

title: Tīģeru zelts

overview: Een mythische droom over iemands poging om te ontsnappen uit het doolhof van onverantwoordelijkheid.

job: Animation

original_title: Tīģeru zelts


title: The White

overview: A story about a boy's attempt to get his own hat. Based on the book and drawings of Latvian author Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš.

title: The White

title: Белая

title: Baltā

job: Novel

original_title: Baltā


title: Ūdensbrīnums

overview: The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.

title: Ūdensbrīnums

title: Ūdensbrīnums

original_title: Ūdensbrīnums


title: Hallo, Hela!

overview: A story about the adventures of a helicopter girl named Hela.

title: Hallo, Hela!

title: Hallo, Hela!

title: Хэлло, Хела!

original_title: Hallo, Hela!


title: Five Cats

overview: An animation film based on a Latvian folk tale.

title: Five Cats

title: Pieci kaķi

title: Пять котов

overview: Пять котов мёрзли возле холодной печки, пока старая мышь не посоветовала им сходить в лес за дровами. Но коты-бездельники не смогли даже дров в лесу нарубить.

original_title: Pieci kaķi


title: Re, kāds gadījums!

overview: A story about a boy who together with his friends - a dog and a swan - taught a lesson to a mischievous robot.

title: Re, kāds gadījums!

title: Re, kāds gadījums!

title: Ну и случай!

original_title: Re, kāds gadījums!


title: Ringlas ceļojums

overview: An animation film for kids teaching them to love and protect nature. Based on the story "Čigānmeitēns Ringla".

title: Ringlas ceļojums

title: Ringlas ceļojums

title: Путешествие Ринглы

overview: Сказочное путешествие Ринглы в тайном лесу полно опасностей, но девочка ничего не боится. Она очень хочет встретить медведя Ричуса, о котором ей так много рассказывала ее бабушка...

original_title: Ringlas ceļojums


title: Pasaka par Sisi Vijoļkāju

overview: An animation film based on a poem by Vitauts Ļaudēns.

title: Pasaka par Sisi Vijoļkāju

title: Pasaka par Sisi Vijoļkāju

title: Сказка о Сиси скрипконожке

overview: Главный герой этой истории - кузнечик Сиси. У него длинные ресницы, красивый кафтан и замечательная скрипка, на которой он так любит играть...

character: (Voice)

original_title: Pasaka par Sisi Vijoļkāju

title: История кузнечика Скрипконожкина

title: Волшебный скрипач


title: Čiks

title: Čiks

title: Čiks

original_title: Čiks


title: Kas tas ir - kolhozs?

overview: A lightly-humoured animation film explaining the origins and the idea behind "kolhoz" in the Soviet system.

title: Kas tas ir - kolhozs?

title: Kas tas ir - kolhozs?

title: Что такое колхоз?

overview: Мультфильм был призван популяризировать такое явление, как колхоз, среди жителей глубинки огромного Советского Союза, ведь известно, что исторический процесс коллективизации проходил болезненно, и многие отказывались отдавать свое имущество в коллективное пользование, понимая, что это не так уж и выгодно, как об этом рассказывает власть...

original_title: Kas tas ir - kolhozs?


title: Sister and Brother

overview: 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 misfortune turns into a new opportunity, but the goal always remains unattainable.

title: Sister and Brother

title: Māsa un brālis

overview: Een zus en broer dromen van dezelfde avonturen, hoewel elk hun droom anders interpreteert. Een droom reist waar wij niet zijn, en waar elk ongeluk verandert in een nieuwe kans, maar het doel blijft altijd onbereikbaar.

title: Сестра и брат

original_title: Māsa un brālis


title: Butterflies

overview: An audiovisual interpretation of one of the "epiphanies" by Imants Ziedonis.

title: Butterflies

title: Бабочки

job: Author

original_title: Taureņi


title: The Cuckoo and Her 12 Hubbies

overview: A sensation or good fortune? Or a lucky occurrence? The Cuckoo has 12 husbands, all of them splendid! Can this be true, and why is she the lucky one?

title: The Cuckoo and Her 12 Hubbies

title: Dzeguze un viņas 12 vīri

overview: Korte animatie: Een sensatie of geluk? Of een gelukkige gebeurtenis? De Koekoek heeft twaalf echtgenoten, allemaal fantastisch! Kan dit waar zijn, en waarom is zij de gelukkige?

title: Кукушка и 12 её мужей

job: Editor

original_title: Dzeguze un viņas 12 vīri


title: Controversial History

overview: In commemorating WWII events in Latvia each year, several “controversial dates” arise. These are remembrance dates that are viewed differently by Latvians, Russians and Jews. The film searches for answers through three main characters, each a representative of their nationality, and categorical in their opposing way of thinking. Why is a date that is celebrated and honoured by one side, also a symbol of deep pain and injustice for another? Why are there, to this day, in a country as small as Latvia, three or more completely differing historical interpretations?

title: Controversial History

job: Director

original_title: Pretrunīgā vēsture


title: Signs of Light

overview: Ingus is a man around forty, utterly happy with his bachelor life, until one day chatty Žanete moves in next door and upsets the usual course of things. He might, of course, ignore her, but some overwhelming force makes him act differently.

title: Signs of Light

job: Art Direction

job: Makeup Designer

job: Costume Design

original_title: Gaismas zīmes


title: Merry Christmas!

overview: A short Christmas tale about happiness that might be passing right by you. And that's when you realise you've just missed. Who's fault is that? Is it fear, is it inability to fight, or is it just a matter of luck?

title: Merry Christmas!

title: Daudz laimes!

overview: Een kort kerstverhaal over geluk dat misschien wel aan je voorbij gaat. En dat is het moment waarop je beseft dat je net gemist hebt. Wiens schuld is dat? Is het angst, is het onvermogen om te vechten, of is het gewoon een kwestie van geluk?

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Daudz laimes!


title: Ghetto Stories. Riga

''Geto stāsti. Rīga" filmas treileris

key: aipyHaZMtsg

overview: The story of the German occupation of Latvia and one of Rīga’s major 20th century historical tragedies, which will be remembered by the people of Rīga forever. French teacher Riva Šefere, lawyer Aleksandrs Bergmanis, music teacher Gabriela Paraša, film historian Valentīna Freimane and historian and founder of the museum “Jews in Latvia” Marģers Vetermanis are just a few of the 30 000 Latvian Jews who were imprisoned in the Riga ghetto. These are eyewitness memories of the holocaust that need to be told.

title: Ghetto Stories. Riga

title: Geto stāsti. Rīga

job: Music

original_title: Geto stāsti. Rīga


title: The Year Before the War

name: The Year Before the War – trailer | IFFR 2021

overview: Stylized as silent cinema, the film connects political and philosophical extremes of 1913 in a story of a young man participating at the creation of a new world. This mysterious adventurer, who was known as Peter the Lett, gets involved in a tragicomic and surreal race from a routine clerk job and a romantic passion in Riga to preparation of the world revolution in Vienna, psychoanalysis at Freud’s salon and seduction of Mata Hari in Paris.

title: The Year Before the War

title: The Year Before the War

overview: En 1913, el mundo está a punto de cambiar de manera radical. Dentro de poco, millones de personas se dirigirán a las trincheras. Justo antes, Peter de Letonia está recorriendo Europa. Empieza a trabajar como portero en Riga, pero se ve envuelto en los planes revolucionarios de los comunistas, anarquistas, nacionalistas y protofascistas. Su odisea por Europa le hará vivir toda una serie de aventuras y desventuras.

title: Gads pirms kara

overview: Jauns Rīgas šveicars Pēteris nonācis vēstures mijkrēslī. Viņš vēl nenojauš, ka pasaule drīz vien pārtaps, un uzsāk sirreālu odiseju pa Eiropu. Nonākdams Parīzē, Londonā, Prāgā, Vīnē un citviet nu jau par Hansu sevi dēvējošais Pēteris iekļaujas starp komunistiem, anarhistiem, protofašistiem un nacionālistiem. Viņš sastop Ļeņinam, Staļinam, Trockim, vampīriskajam Prustam līdzīgos, tāpat arī ieskatās spiedzes Matas Hari dubultniecē Almā. Šveices Monte Veritá jeb Patiesības kalna sanatorijā un dzīves reformistu komūnā viņš sastop Freidu. Varbūt viņš palīdzēs. Identitātes krīze un iesētā sazvērestība ir nepiekāpīga: kas īsti ir Pēteris?

title: Rok před válkou

overview: Vymknuta z kloubů, doba šílí, ožívají politické a filozofické extrémy roku 1913. Peter Lotyš, „muž bez vlastností“, prochází tragikomickým a surreálným panoptikem předválečné Evropy. Pracuje jako hotelový poslíček, je spalován romantickou vášní k revolucionářce a spiritistickému médiu v jedné osobě a s Leninem připravuje světovou bolševickou revoluci. Z revolučních choutek ho nevyléčí ani Sigmund Freud ve svém salónu či svádění Maty Hari.

title: За год до войны

overview: Ганс, неприметный бедный швейцар рижской гостиницы, после смерти отца и столкновения с анархистами отправляется в Европу. Во время своего путешествия мужчина попадает в самые странные ситуации, встречая Ленина, Гитлера, Сталина, Фрейда и других исторических личностей.

job: Writer

job: Production Design

job: Foley Artist

original_title: Gads pirms kara

title: Rok před válkou

production_countries: LV LT CZ


title: 2018

name: CENTENARY “2018” [trailer] / SIMTGADE “2018”

overview: During  Latvia’s  centennial  year,  15  filmmakers  created  each  his  own  film  portrait  of  a  person  living  in  Latvia  on  the  background  of  centenary  events.  Documentary  2018  combines  these  stories  into  a  unique  poetic  vision  based  on  analogy  with  the  documentary  235  000  000,  a  classic  of  the  Riga  school  of  poetic  documentary  cinema.  This  film  is  an  attempt to make sure whether the codes of the poetic cinema are still relevant and accessible today.

title: 2018

title: 2018


title: Tango

overview: Helen suspects that her beloved son has a girlfriend what he is trying to hide.  She is terrified of the possibility that her son could leave her for his girlfriend. Dainis invites her to a party in the hope that they both will be able to become friends, but due to missunderstanding a disaster strikes.

title: Tango

job: Producer

original_title: Tango


title: Land of Fate

overview: While the two great powers of Europe were fighting during WWII, the strong family of the legendary  Prometheus  of  Latgale,  Andrīvs  Jurdžs,  was  brutally  shattered.  Fleeing  from  the  Communists,  a  few  of  the  younger  generation  managed  to  escape  to  the  West.  The  older generation remained in Latvia, but Stalin’s repression deported many to Siberia as “enemies of the state”. The family is scattered over the world, and the post-war genera-tion have never met. While in America, Peter accidentally discovers the documentary film “Perpetual  Calendar”,  and  instantly  recognizes  his  Latvian  relatives.  Brother  and  sister,  Peter and Helena, follow their parents’ footsteps back to Latgale (Eastern Latvia) to learn more of their legendary ancestor and to finally meet relatives. The family’s search leads to Tomsk, Siberia..

title: Land of Fate

job: Sound Director

original_title: Likteņzeme


title: Talkers

overview: The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect  spoken  in  Riga  and  central  parts  of  Latvia  -  not  featured  in  the  film.  In  intimate  surroundings,  a  farmer,  a  schoolteacher,  and  a  herder  of  ostriches  talk  about  perceived  differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.

title: Talkers

title: Runātāji

original_title: Runātāji


title: New Year's Eve Taxi 2

overview: A year has passed, and characters of New Year’s Eve Taxi are counting hours until New Year’s Eve once again. All of them have experienced many changes... Andrejs is willing to stay at home with his fiancee, but as Ilze is expecting a baby, she has a lot of cravings, and Andrejs is ready to drive again to get her a burger, scallops, or strawberries. His neighbor, policeman Jēkabs, has been blackmailed throughout the year, but this time, by help of his new friend Anna, he returns to the “crime scene” to redeem his reputation. Innocent drive to the shop turns into a kaleidoscope of events and surprises jeopardising a family gathering.

title: Jaungada taksometrs 2

overview: Pagājis gads un "Jaungada taksometrs" varoņi atkal skaita stundas līdz Jaunajam gadam. Andrejs pavada to kopā ar savu mīļoto Ilzi, gaidot atbraucam viņas mammu, lai beidzot iepazītos un paziņotu par gaidāmo mazuli. Ilzes daudzo iegribu dēļ, viņš neviļus kļūst par salaveci neparastā pasākumā, kas var mainīt ne tikai viņa paša, bet arī jaunās ģimenes nākotni.

title: New Year's Eve Taxi 2

title: Новогоднее такси 2

overview: Прошёл год, и герои фильма снова считают часы до Нового года. За год в жизни героев произошли перемены. Этот вечер Андрей провел бы вместе со своей любимой Илзе в ожидании приезда её мамы, если бы только у Илзе, уже будучи в положении, не возникали разные потребности, за которыми надо ехать. Сосед Андрея, полицейский Екаб Гаршиньш годом ранее случайно попал на пикантную фотосессию и в течение года подвергался шантажу, но с помощью новой знакомой, косметолога Анны, возвращается на место происшествия для восстановления справедливости. Айга, решившая целый год держаться подальше от мужчин, последние часы уходящего года тщетно пытается не попасть в объятия симпатичного Яниса. И, наконец, отзывчивый Андрей по доброте душевной опять не может отказать Игорю и снова становится Дедом Морозом на необычном празднике, который может изменить не только его самого, но и будущее его молодой семьи. Ну и куда же без всезнайки Велты – одних нравоучений для Айги ей слишком мало.

job: Makeup Artist

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Jaungada taksometrs 2


title: The Draughtsman

overview: To touch the paper, to hear the sound of the pencil and to always trace himself - those are the rules of Latvian artist, Ilmārs Blumbergs. The story of a man who does not create art for around or within, but has instead made it a constant state of being.

title: The Draughtsman

original_title: Zīmētājs


title: Mirror Man

overview: Budding lawyer Vik is disappointed in himself. He tries to change and please everyone until he loses sight of himself.  Vik meets the mysterious Mirror Man who offers to help him regain his self-esteem and become the kind of person Vik dreams of becoming. Vik agrees, but the Mirror Man at times leaves Vik in situations where he surprises others not just by his new-found self-confidence, but also by insolence that causes a rift with his closest friends. Soon the Mirror Men in Vik’s life are too many to control, and when he tries to back away – it’s too late.

title: Mirror Man

original_title: Spoguļvīrs


title: When You Look At Me

overview: A problem that every film director has faced – how do you film something that does not exist? A director is making a documentary about an actor and his stalker – but the stalker never appears. As the deadline approaches, unusual steps must be taken.

title: When You Look At Me

title: Kad tu uz mani skaties

overview: Vairāki režisori izcieš mokas, cenšoties uzfilmēt dokumentālu filmu par jaunu aktieri Gerdu Lapošku un viņa stalkeri, kurš realitātē nekad tā arī neparādās. Tomēr tuvojas Nacionālā kino centra uzliktais termiņš, un filmai ir jātop.

character: Jānis

character: Frederiks

character: Una

character: Sabīne

character: Kirils

character: Roberts

character: Gerds

character: Rūdolfs

character: Dace

original_title: Kad tu uz mani skaties


title: Treasures Of The Sea

overview: A poetic portrait of the western coastline of Latvia that, accompanied by songs about fish and the sea, roaring of vessel engines and factory alacrity, gives a glimpse into the life by the sea where the smell of fish and sea water is still present.

title: Treasures Of The Sea

original_title: Jūras nauda