Latvia Movies

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...

Riga by night, two girls and a guy. Andris is a cab driver who mistakes the two girls for clients; they mistake the ride for an invitation to a fancy...

"Introduction to Epilogue" is a colorful, allegorical film about the fear of death. Life will always last a lifetime and it will always end in death....

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity,...

Fascination with movement, fixation of time, the mystery of life, the birth and dance of a butterfly… Through the history of mankind and film,...

A reindeer herdsman’s life is as gently monotonous as the tundra itself. It flows in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one...

Maria decides to go for a swim in the pool even though it looks deserted and she’s warned that the water is cold. When she gets into the pool...

An audiovisual interpretation of one of the "epiphanies" by Imants Ziedonis.

In the godforsaken land on both sides of the Latvian-Estonian border people are awaiting "the coming of Europe" in candlelight with no electricity....

A film essay on the theme of the underground city, the post-war mood – about winners and losers.

Just like ordinary people, whole nations often wonder why their neighbors are living better than they are. For example, where did the Estonians...

“Collective.Me” is an ironic comedy about the concept of lies and loss of faith. In a small village, a paper mill is expecting a visit...

How the Stripped one and the Dotted one were playing in one sandbox and how it all ended.

The monument to help is a small shop in the center of Alūksne – a social, cultural, and human place in the small city of Malēnija,...

Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no means just for laughs. Feelings of...

When you are on the road you know that all will end soon.

Direct and meticulous observation of interpersonal relations is a classic subject in documentary films. In this film the title of which alludes to...

Karlis Preiss, a member of the Latvian parliament, wakes up one morning only to discover that he's become entangled in a massive scandal, all because...

An emotional journey of two diametrically opposed societies whose collision reveals the ambiguity of social class, identity and reality. Through a...

A young woman gets flashbacks from her previous lives - flashbacks of how she died. Is her fate doomed to repeat itself again?