Latvia Movies

A shop by the side of the road. One after another, people enter and exit the small building. The randomness and illogical nature of the action feels...

A short documentary portrait of Jurģis, an autistic boy.

In this short musical, Kristīne, a young Music Academy graduate, has been offered to conduct two male choirs that are very different from each...

A story about the significance of Goethe’s Faust in the development of Latvian literature, language, publishing, culture and theatre. The...

Latvian artist Miķelis Fišers, one of the brightest artists of his generation, leaves everything to go to Latin America to find...

Death as non-existence, non-being, or the absence of life has been a subject of human interest for millennia. Poets, philosophers, prophets, and...

There is a moment in the lives of emperors, which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered, and the melancholy...

Latvian artist Gustavs Klucis embraced the technological revolution of the early 20th century and applied it to his art, becoming a classic of...

Kaspars Kambala is one of the most prominent basketball players of his generation. He was a member of the Latvia's 2009 basketball team known as "Now...

The film is based on an interpretation of the fairy tale theme that takes place after the "happy ending," when the noble knight defeats the dragon...

A tragicomic tale about the relationship of Guna and the twice older writer Gints. Guna has lost her job, but Gints hasn’t written anything in...

The Samtskhe-Javakheti region in southern Georgia, which has a mostly Armenian population, suffers under silent ethnic tensions caused by a...

About a toddler who didn't want to sleep.

Marija returns to Latvia hoping to regain not only a sense of home, but also her close relationship with her friend, Sofija. Longing for the freedom...

A documentary about Latvian film star Vija Artmane.

Raisin hornets, chocolate cities, broccoli forests, gingerbread dragons, walking lollipops and other sweets come to life and sparkle in a hundred...

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as...

A devoted collector confronts the missing piece of his hockey card collection: the player himself.

Arnis Rītups has become an urban legend of Riga— a provocative philosopher, publisher of the magazine Rigas Laiks, and the creator of such...

A documentary essay about an unusual 17-year-old who lives on an island in a marsh and draws his life.