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A puppet animation film by the legendary Arnolds Burovs.
A film of the popular composer Raimonds Pauls - with music, songs and open conversation about popularity, light and serious music
"Kurzeme is in the voices—the voices of windmills and airplanes, fishing boats and ocean liners, land and sea, the elderly and children, victims and heroes… In our voices." A text by Jānis Peters, read by actor Juris Strenga, accompanies the story of Kurzeme—its history and present day. Turning the pages of a harsh history filled with wars and revolutionaries, the “price lists” of medieval executioners, and the tragedy of Zlēki during World War II, the film returns to the summer of 1969, bringing together various characters and events.
Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.
Performed by Renat Ibragimov, featuring songs by composers Raimonds Pauls, Almaz Monasypov, Rishat Abdullin and Boris Rivchun. Filmed on location.
A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons' life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian self-awareness.
A musical tale about the seasons.
A documentary film about the poet, essayist, public figure, and initiator of Latvia's third awakening. Jānis Peters, at the age of fifty, analyzes his life's journey and social processes.