The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia - not featured in the film. In intimate surroundings, a farmer, a schoolteacher, and a herder of ostriches talk about perceived differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.
Director Aija Bley's "Brīva Vieta - T17" captures the unique testimony of the modern era of Riga - t...
The amazing story of 1,000,000,000 people and their MAD MAD MAD rush to learn English! China 's love...
They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ......
How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s hea...
An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is ...
Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.
Be. Belonging. Words on vintage flash cards shuffle past in a stream-of-consciousness that shows the...
A postmodern Swiss-Tyrolean ensemble ventures into remote mountainous regions, embracing the sonorou...
How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switze...
"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala ...
Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their ...
A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep i...
“Hike '44" is a personal story by director Lauris Abele and cinematographer Marcis Abele about how t...
The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to st...
“When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Ar...
The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems h...
Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week....