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During World War II, a young man and woman are separated by chance. Fifty years later, they are still searching for each other, hoping to meet again.
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.
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Then he gets an offer to tour in East Europe. During his travels he gets insight and finds true love.
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.
A government official receives an illegal offer. He commits the crime, secretly goes to New York and falls in love.
A portrait of Alexander – a man only 130cm tall, who surprises people around him with his great drive and achievements.
Film follows two volunteers - Rodion and Ivan, who bring help to Ukrainian soldiers in Eastern Ukraine's front line.
Four Latvian legionnaires are sentenced to death for deserting the German army. A Latvian girl heads to the German headquarters to try to free her beloved. In the few hours remaining before the execution a love triangle plays out between the girl, a German officer and the prisoner.
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.
A documentary about the Latvian pop singer Mārtiņš Freimanis who died at the early age of 33. The director of this film, Arvīds Krievs, has directed two films starring Freimanis as an actor, and had an intimate connection with him as they were neighbours and Freimanis trusted him more than the journalists or reporters who interviewed him. Arvīds Krievs had planned to make a film about the singer for a few years, so he filmed the singer's life extensively.
A film about Mārtiņš Freimanis and the band Tumsa - a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes life of the singer, composer, and poet - at home and in public. Colleagues and like-minded people, the journey of a song - from conception to the listener.
A portrait of the witty, artistic, and at times sarcastic Latvian composer Mārtiņš Brauns.
Galiņi was a deserted corner of Madliena, a former forestry house, when the Strazdiņi family arrived here, and in 15 years Galiņi has been turned into an exemplary vegetable farm. Three generations of the Strazdiņi family live and work here, but the film is about the youngest of them - Kristaps, Elīna, Raits and Mārtiņš, who are aged between 4 and 11. They live alongside their parents and grandparents in their daily lives in winter, spring, summer and autumn. They learn to work, think, and understand, because work is the foundation of their lives, so that they don't have to go to foreign lands in search of happiness...
Cross-section of 149 days lived in the shadow of Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia.
