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“TESA MAN” is a music film – a poetic exploration of the relationship between collective creativity and the natural world. The film...

Inta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a...

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as...

Dinārs is a Latvian schlager singer popular with the ladies and known for his big cat mane. The eponymous film follows his path over a turbulent...

The documentary film Laidi tells the story of the last year of Laidi Primary school in Laidi Manor, southwestern Latvia. Ieva Epnere came to Laidi in...

Victor (31) has a rare form of cancer in an advanced stage; moreover, his wife is about to divorce him. Trapped in the antechamber of death and with...

The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia -...

An observational reflection on the body and existing in one’s social as well as physical “skin”. “To break out of their...

Accomplished European scenographer and educator Andris Freibergs paints a self-portrait by shaping the stage for an imaginary production titled...

A gripping journey into the world of Latvian rock legend Juris Kulakovs. The film follows a young filmmaker as she uncovers the essence of the...

Every day, come rain or shine, Theodore used to bike the seven kilometres from his house to the centre of the village to sit and drink beer in the...

In 1946, a group of Latvian Brazilian Baptist missionaries arrived to Rincon del Tigre (“Jaguar’s Corner”), in the backwoods of...

There is a popular Latvian folksong which begins with the phrase "I was singing out high on a mountain". The irony of it is that according to...

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

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

The code to unlocking this feature documentary is 1949, the year the director was born, and also the year of the return of Soviet repressions to...

New performers have recently moved into the 130-year-old building of the Riga Circus. Having built a stage in the stables, actors Ance, Āris,...

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...

The world seen through the eyes of children. The action takes place in Karosta, the former military port of Liepaja city – however, it is not...

Sigurds operates a hundred-year-old lift in a large hospital in Riga, absorbing the sounds of daily hospital life while between floors. Meanwhile, in...