Deniss is a Russian-speaking young man working at a fast food chain and spending his days in a small, gloomy apartment where all the things still remind him of his dead grandmother. Once a week he takes the stage, becoming a stand-up comedian. His jokes come from his life, which might be called dull as well as bleak, and, as he puts it, his ‘uninteresting biography’.

Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no...

Four people suffering from various forms of clinical anxiety disorders tell us what it's like to liv...

Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their ...

An attempt to understand the people chanting "Atlaist Saeimu!" (Sack the parliament!) year after yea...

Dinārs is a Latvian schlager singer popular with the ladies and known for his big cat mane. The epon...

Viktors is an entrepreneur with a unique offer – he has built a bar, bakery, spa, hotel and an auto-...

The documentary “Residents” probes problems in Latvia in general and Latvia’s medicine in particular...

Two Rigans - Valentīna and Armands - make makeshift yard exhibitions by their homes out of objects t...

After receiving an edict from the municipal authorities about the closing of their school, the stude...

'Vadātājs' is an ancient Latvian mythological creature that leads people to Nowhere. As Latvia has b...

The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spo...

This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs ...
This documentary follows the lives of several extraordinary people who have been diagnosed with soci...


A story of a Latvian family making tentative plans to return to Latvia. Ģirts, a doctor working in D...

Nearly everybody has been to the circus to laugh about clowns, be afraid of the lions and to eat sug...

An ordinary old folks’ home on the Latvian border – one of many, where our parents, grand-parents an...

“The Inked Family” follows a couple of married Latvian-born tattoo artists – Anrijs and Monami Frost...

Māris Strazds (also known as "Mr Black Stork") is a man who's been studying black storks and their b...