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- An aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
- Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and making a slave on the farm.
- The desperate lives of Hungarian soldiers on the Eastern Front through the eyes of a captain. Their task is to find and capture Soviet partisans to secure the front lines.
- The poet and his two sons are trying to use a gifted castle by setting up a boarding house in it. The castle comes with its set of old servants. Various misunderstandings with guests, servants, romantic adventures, visits of artists from the capital follow.
- The story of Maria Leiko - a famous actress who late in her career has to decide between fame and love for her grandchild, between her ideals or the lies of Stalin's totalitarian regime.
- Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
- As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of events which have their roots over four decades ago. In order to find herself and understand the game she was part of, Ieva sets out on a journey to the past, confronting family secrets, lies and betrayal.
- A historical drama set in Lithuania in 1948, "Au Crépuscule" focuses on Ounté, a 19-year old boy who experiences passion and violence after joining a group of partisans resisting the Soviet occupation.
- Zanis Lipke's family's efforts to save the Jews during World War II and the rise of the child in a tragic historical situation.
- A mini-series about Emilija Benjamina, the "queen of the press" in interwar Latvia, whose wealth and tragic fate have since become folklore.
- Izabele, is a modern, intellectual woman, living with her husband Liudas in a homestead near a big city. They are raising a son, Gailius, who has a case of epilepsy and is smarter than most children his age. Izabele decides to adopt Ilja - the meanest and most secretive boy in the foster home.
- Have the traits of a totalitarian upbringing changed in 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union?
- Three young men head to an isolated country house to shoot a film that they hope will bring them fame. They have no experience, but possess the will to change their lives. They make various attempts, but none seem to work. The team comes to a creative impasse, but the stakes are too high to give up. In hopes of drawing out their talents, they spend more and more time chipping away at each other. Previously hidden character traits come to light further complicating their relationship and the making of the film. Soon it's each man for himself. Just when the experiment seems utterly failed, one of them is discovered dead. It's not clear whether it's accidental, suicide or murder, but a real body in the scene satisfies - this could be the start of The Film.
- Through six very different families, documentary "The Land" shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions of the countryside living as well as illusions about farmer's life. There are various reasons why our protagonists chose to live in the homesteads, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Some were done with spending too much time in an office, traffic and living a virtual life, they wanted real, tangible things. Some have moved to countryside by their own choice, but some by predisposition of their families. But what unites them all - they aspire for the stability provided by their own land and house. Together with our protagonists, we will spend one year's cycle of farmer's life, that will start with the spring sowing and finish with the autumn harvest and land preparation for the next year. These individual stories will draw the landscape of the 21st century countryside.
- During the course of one night a young driver navigates the complicated taxi turf wars in a desperate attempt to come up with the money he owes his increasingly impatient boss.
- Two young boys are forced to escape their native city of Riga. Later these same boys turn out to be among the most extraordinary personalities of the previous century: one becomes a leading commie film director and the other a mentor to the entire British Empire. This story will reveal the secrets of the remarkably parallel lives between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin.
- The lives of 5 children are followed during their first year of school in different parts of the Latvian countryside: their school activities, their dreams and their family lives. Their stories are to be followed by the director in the coming future.
- The view of the Latvian capital through cats' eyes and ears.
- How a great love became a masterpiece of European literature: the fascinating story of how the novel "The Leopard" came to be written. When Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died in 1957, he was penniless. One year later, his only novel The Leopard was published and became an overnight success. Luchino Visconti's eponymous film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1963. The story of how the book came to be written is largely unknown. It's based on the relationship between the writer and his Baltic German wife and how they lost almost everything against the background of the massive upheavals in Europe and who nonetheless managed to reinvent themselves.
- The first Jewish cemetery in Riga was opened in 1725 and burials continued there until the late 1930s. After German forces occupied Riga in 1941, the cemetery became a mass burial site for over 1 000 Jews killed in the streets and houses of Riga Ghetto. Following WWII many of the cemetery's tombstones were removed and used as building material. In the 1960s the site was razed and renamed "The Park of the Communist Brigades". In 1992 the park was renamed "The Old Jewish Cemetery". Nowadays, the park, located in one of the poorest districts of the city, nicknamed Maskachka (Maskava is the Latvian name for Moscow), is a popular spot for idle drunkards, local kids and American tourists. The film is dedicated to the memory of Riga Jews.
- Just like in a focus of a lens the northern suburbs of Riga show the opportunities, the contradictions and risks characteristic for each highly developed civilization in its in-between zone of "post" - in this case - post-Soviet, post-industrial, postmodern period. And just like any other coastal area Daugava delta can offer not only fresh fish and wind but also wide horizon and endless sky.
- A detective story about the reappearance of a millionaire lost in Latvia in the 1990s.
- A film about one of Europe's best young theatre directors, Latvian-born Alvis Hermanis, and his distinctive method, marked by a renunciation of classic dramatic material.
- I have this feeling that I have never had my own thoughts and feelings, always those have been the thoughts, the ideas and feelings of others, and I have just existed among those.
- "Crossing" is a poetic observational documentary that shows life on and around a timeless river ferry in Latvia. It shows all seasons of the year, while reflecting unsuspecting human moments, as seen from the perspective of a river crossing.