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- An anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
- A CrossFit trainer becomes the father of a baby girl, Snow White. Snow White's mother dies, and her father marries a young woman obsessed with CrossFit and herself. She works out all the time in order to be the best. And she really is the best - she can do 50 burpees. In the meantime, little Snow White plays and grows up in the CrossFit gym. Time passes, and one day it turns out - while the Stepmother can do 50 burpees, Snow White can already do 53 burpees.
- Propaganda story about a 'Young Pioneer' Pavel Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin's secret police and was in turn killed by his own family.
- An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught. When the photographer's pet python escapes, havok breaks loose.
- Life is happening now: If "all the world's a stage," then the scenes recorded by an unmoving camera on an ordinary football field are its pure essence. Over the course of just two minutes, this cinematic miniature unfolds a story filled with concentration, hope, disappointment, friendship, and the collegiality of sport. A football microcosm.
- The Hijacker forces the plane to land at the Riga Airport. 7-year old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage. Along with the traditional demands, the Hijacker adds the demands of the little hostage - beginning with some local chocolate and a self instruction tape for learning the native language, and ending with organizing a Song Festival and a special bi athletes performance - all ideas originating from a CD on Latvia. But someone decides to use Song Festival and bi athletes in solving the hostage crises.
- This documentary follows a bustrip Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.
- Edvard Rusjan was the first victim of Austro-Hungarian aviation. In Yugoslavia, formed only a few years after his death, he became the aviation hero. After Edvard's death his brother Josipe migrated to Argentina. The myth of Edvard Rusjan is still alive in the hearts of Slovenian aviators also after the breakup of Yugoslavia. In recent years the knowledge on the Rusjan brothers' activities became appreciated in Gorizia where a memorial plaque decorates his family home. On the 100th anniversary of the Rusjan's first flight (2009) the film pays homage to the Slovenian -Italian Friuli Wright brothers, the Rusjans who challenged the world with their bold dreams, competing with birds.
- Two 18-year-old guys work in a pizzeria and make grandiose plans for the future, but one night they turn their lives upside down.
- A documentary about Priit Pärn, an animator of international renown, graphic artist, caricaturist and book illustrator. Pärns works are utterly grotesque, absurd and funny. Additionally, they are critical about the society, piercing the deepest levels of human consciousness.
- The ordinary plastic spoon has tried to pull the wool over our eyes. After all, this plastic servant will breathe its last just as its existence finally begins to have meaning. A piece of cheap plastic that will soon fade into history.
- It can turn out that seemingly eternal things are not like that at all.
- "We go to people's homes, ask them to go outside and we film them through their own windows - this is how we are making films about people, their homes, and about filmmaking." Pakalnina and her cinematographer position their selected subjects and ask them to hold still for a minute outside their homes, while they film them from the inside, through the (usually closed) windows, but sometimes also through open ones or through glass doors. An experimental hybrid documentary that celebrates the home environment in a highly original poetic fashion.
- Rubiks' road is the bicycle road connecting Riga and Jurmala. It is still unofficially associated with the name of the former Communist Party leader of Soviet Latvia. While we were filming pedestrians, joggers, bicyclers, dogs, birds, trains, scooters and airplanes, the citizens of Latvia elected Alfreds Rubiks, a person strongly against the independence of Latvia, to the European Parliament.
- Once upon a time there was a chimney. By the chimney - three houses. In the three houses - seven girls. All of them blondes.
- A city is a frenetic place and a reason is needed for asking the people to stop for a moment and stand in front of the movie camera. The reason is some music by Mozart (a few instants of The Magic Flute). A man, a girl, a child, a couple of women, and a few young people put the earphones on and listen.
- There should be silence in a museum. And someone should see to it that the silence is there. It's the logical order of things. However, it might seem weird to somebody.
- The oak tree in Seja is roughly 700 years old. Around this monumental tree, the peaceful and repetitive life goes on in the village, a group of houses in the middle of the forest. It is an almost unworldly existence in a condition of absolute simplicity where people are grateful for a hot cup of coffee and a good potato harvest.
- First bridge on Daugava river in territory of Latvia. Shot on Kodak Eastman Plus-X Negative Film bought in 1997 and accidentally found in 2018.
- The film is about how everything changes while remaining the same, or rather how everything remains the same by changing. It uses all the basic elements of film language - image, sound, light, movement (or non-movement), editing rhythm and pauses and all those things a man never thinks about walking along a country road.
- Just like ordinary people, whole nations often wonder why their neighbors are living better than they are. For example, where did the Estonians living on Mohni Island suddenly get bicycles and sewing machines? Could the answer have some connection with the Latvian cargo ship "Rasma", which sank near Mohni in 1941?
- This film is about wondering why the world is the place that it is; wondering why beauty often lies in simplicity, why taking something too seriously might result in the ridiculous; or why playing can be at once the most important and serious thing to do.
- A silent dissertation on the daily life of a truck driver who delivers clean linens to a children's hospital. He unloads the sheets and divides them up among the wards, where small, gripping dramas of life and death are unfolding. And every day it's the same story.
- The morning begins when the mail is delivered - this has been a tradition for almost an eternity. This film looks at daily things, daily movements, daily life and the daily routines of the postman, which are nevertheless meaningful to those who await and receive newspapers and letters.