After receiving an edict from the municipal authorities about the closing of their school, the students at Mežvidi primary school continue to attend lessons and exercise creativity and fun, but it’s all clouded in a sense of fatality. They aren’t many students, and because of that the school resembles a large family rather than an institution. Near the Russian border, deep in the Latgale region, this place will become a nowhere-land once the youth depart. In an intimate message about a national problem, the story focuses on three sisters for whom life is about to drastically change. Through their daily lives and small adventures we try to understand the real meaning of the contention that “the countryside is dying”. And we see hope.

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

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

Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - foun...
Deniss is a Russian-speaking young man working at a fast food chain and spending his days in a small...

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

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

The documentary chronicles the life stories of two brothers, Kristaps and Krists. Kristaps, the elde...

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

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

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

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-...

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

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

Prayer for a Home shows how everyone needs shelter and a home – people in Latvia, Europe and trouble...

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

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