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’.

"If a person doesn't go to church anymore, then the church should go to them," says Rinalds, a calm,...

In this film a young man and his curmudgeonly grandfather are going 1,800 km to northern Russia in a...

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

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 ...

Director Aija Bley's "Brīva Vieta - T17" captures the unique testimony of the modern era of Riga - t...

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

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

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

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

For two months, the third-grade students at Cēsis’ New Primary School have been plan-ning and organi...

Latvia is home to almost one fifth of the world’s population of the lesser spotted eagle, yet their ...

The heroine is a widow and a fiancé who wants to begin a new and happy life. Conflicts in her family...

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

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

A documentary that chronicles twin brothers searching for their absent father in faraway Russia. Hav...

The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to st...

The documentary explores issues of beauty and acceptance in a culture increasingly saturated with id...

“Hike '44" is a personal story by director Lauris Abele and cinematographer Marcis Abele about how t...

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