Following an ad in the paper, Ilze leaves her native village to become an actress. She fails the audition, but her pride won’t let her to return home. Her boyfriend is skeptical about her ambitions, he comes after her to bring her back home. The plot evolves around their relationship as they pretend and lie to each other trying to deal with emotional dissonance.Read More »
By means of a sharp publicistic film the authors enter into “on equal ground” conversation with the young people who enter in life or who’ve taken their first independent steps in it. The problems confronted by them are of a new nature for the society: they are generated not by poverty but by richness of possibilities given by the same society. And at the same time that problems are animated by the incomprehension or lack of desire from the part of the old age people to understand the new problems and difficulties. The aim of the film is to throw light on the problem, to reveal it without giving methods of its solutions.Read More »
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Kolka is a small fisherman village on the Baltic coast. Being almost thirty but still living with their mothers, three friends spend their days drinking beer, killing time and picking up fights with the neighboring village.
One of them, Andzha, is about to get married. Being busy with “settling his life”, he doesn’t notice that his fiance Simona starts to doubt her feelings. When his elder brother Guido returns from the sea, the brothers now have to adapt again to living under one roof. Meanwhile his marriage plans fail. The brothers overcome their anatgonism when they dicover their illusions about their up-coming marriage and women in general.Read More »
One of the best-known gems of Latvian cinematography and the most distinctive film by the master director Herz Frank. For ten whole minutes, the camera never leaves the face of a young boy watching a puppet show, and through this child’s soul the viewer experiences the struggle between good and evil by observing the boy’s unmediated emotions, which make him ten minutes older, more experienced and emotionally mature.Read More »
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Crossroad Street is a small street just 800 metres long on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga. Its various inhabitants, each with his or her own destiny, daily life and relationships with the neighbours, form a microcosm of the country during the time of the Awakening. The genuine interest of the film’s creators in the so-called average person earned a number of international awards, including a European Film Award for best documentary in 1989.Read More »
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A Latvian fairy tale about a homeless cat and his journey to the end of the world where he teaches a sad king to be happy again.Read More »
At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics witnessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common historiographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Or a cinematic poem about cinema poets.Read More »
Imants Veide is writing a script about con artists and their schemes. Together with his friend Harijs Kuharjonoks he’s trying them out for real for greater authenticity, but gets too entangled in real criminal schemes.Read More »
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Based on the novel by Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš, “Puika” tells the story of Latvian peasants at the end of the 19th century through the eyes of a poetic village boy Yantsisa.Read More »