Latvia Movies

This film looks at the Brukna commune which helps addicts recover with hard work and lots of prayer. They spend their days restoring a church and...

Composers are regular people – they drive public transport, do sports, pay their bills. And still – they are very different as they are...

The creators of this experimental essay introduced the film by saying, “Fear of the unknown, fear of the dark, fear of the enemy, fear of death...

She comes at night, quiet as a cat, to take his sleep away until he feeds her. All she needs is milk brought by him somewhere between sleep and...

A film about "Dziesmusvētki" - the Latvian national singing festival tradition.

The story of three different cultures meeting together in the realm of ethno-jazz music. Georgian ethno-jazz trio The Shin, the Moldavian band...

One night he did not go to sleep and watched a horror film. He drank a glass of water and needed to go to the toilet. While going there, the boy's...

A man trying to execute a terror act in which the whole side of The Left Bank (Pārdaugava) is flooded, by pouring extreme amounts of water into...

Lonely, 45 year-old worker Kasandra has just received a lethal diagnosis from her doctor. She goes to her high school reunion, confused, and is faced...

An attempt to understand the people chanting "Atlaist Saeimu!" (Sack the parliament!) year after year. Though rarely attracting a great deal of...

Several very different characters – a pioneering physicist, an acclaimed minimalist composer, an intensive care doctor and a crematorium...

After the death of Yanek’s father, his mother, whom he hasn’t seen for years, visits him and makes claims on the flat where he and his...

The film depicts, with a certain patriotic tone, a traditional-style wedding party of Dravnieku Velta and Varkaļu Jānis.

I was nine years old when my mother took me away from home for the first time – to Leningrad. For those of us behind the Iron Curtain, this was...

A documentary about Latvian actress Elvīra Baldiņa who's over a 100 years old and knows several thousand dainas (Latvian folksongs) by...

An animation by Roze Stiebra, Lielais Kristaps award for Best animation film 1998.

Ukrainian refugees who've found shelter in Latvia, talk about what home means to them. The audio of the interviews is combined with shots of an...