A film documenting contemporary Latvian reality along the banks of the river Gauja while channelling one of the first Latvian sound documentary films, Gauja (1934). “Along with producers Sandijs Semjonovs and Gundars Rēders and editor Atis Klimovičs, we witnessed incidents and events along the banks of the river some 80 years later. We captured them along with the views of folks on this river in a documentally poetic style reflecting the reality in Latvia,” explains director Mārtiņš Grauds.
The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spo...
The documentary “Residents” probes problems in Latvia in general and Latvia’s medicine in particular...
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...
Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their ...
Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no...
“Hike '44" is a personal story by director Lauris Abele and cinematographer Marcis Abele about how t...
The documentary explores issues of beauty and acceptance in a culture increasingly saturated with id...
Nearly everybody has been to the circus to laugh about clowns, be afraid of the lions and to eat sug...
"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...
A story of a Latvian family making tentative plans to return to Latvia. Ģirts, a doctor working in D...
The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to st...
'Vadātājs' is an ancient Latvian mythological creature that leads people to Nowhere. As Latvia has b...
Two Rigans - Valentīna and Armands - make makeshift yard exhibitions by their homes out of objects t...
The film portrays the political situation in occupied Latvia 37 years ago, when writer Imants Ziedon...
This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs ...
Two young women, Lidija and Esmeralda, have become mothers at a tender age. At the moment, they’re a...
Latvia is home to almost one fifth of the world’s population of the lesser spotted eagle, yet their ...
“The Inked Family” follows a couple of married Latvian-born tattoo artists – Anrijs and Monami Frost...