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- DirectorInara KolmaneStarsRuta KronbergaElina VaneArturs SkrastinsA life-provoking, hopeful and solemn story about the growth of one human child and the relationship with the world in Latvia at the end of the 1930s.
- DirectorAnna VidulejaStarsIgors SelegovskisKaspars ZnotinsKristine KruzeThe action takes place in 1938. The film tells about a young artist Juris Upenajs who comes to Riga where he begins to build his career.
- DirectorDavis Simanis Jr.StarsArturs SkrastinsIlze BlaubergaMatiss KipluksZanis Lipke's family's efforts to save the Jews during World War II and the rise of the child in a tragic historical situation.
- DirectorJanis AbeleStarsBruno BitenieksAlekss TaurinsEndijs ZuksWhen a 14-year-old boy falls in love with his classmate, he befriends rebellious teenagers who change his view of the world.
- DirectorAlise ZarinaStarsAnta AizupeAris MatesovicsAmelija AboltinaLouise and Kaspars meet on a trip to celebrate Midsummer's Eve. They're both running away from their lives; they're young, talented, and lost, and the trip turns into a shared journey through a relationship over the course of 3 years.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsUldis DumpisGundars AbolinsMaija ApineSet in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsDavis SuharevskisBrigita CmuntováAgnese BudovskaFollows the talented Ansis as he negotiates a national dictatorship in his pursuit of an art career.
- DirectorFred KelemenStarsEgons DombrovskisNikolay KorobovVigo RogaMatiss Zelcs is trying to find woman which he did ignore and who was about to jump off the bridge last night. Police don't want to continue investigation as no body was found, however Matiss is on his way to start his own investigation.
- DirectorMadara DislereStarsMagda Lotte AuzinaMarta AuzaneLiva LocmeleArriving at her cousins home in a late eighties Latvia rattled by political turmoil and faced with divorce in her own family, nine year old Paula learns that no matter what the future of her country might bring, family values are of greater significance than anything.
- DirectorEdmunds JansonsStarsEduards OlektsNora DzumaAndris KeissSummer adventure story about two kids who spend summer in city suburb, where together with talking dogs they rescue the romantic wooden-house neighborhood from reconstruction.
- DirectorEdvins SnoreStarsJon StricklandVladimir BukovskyVladimir LeninThe Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
- DirectorOskars RupenheitsStarsLauris KlavinsAndris DaugavinsMaris MicerevskisImants 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.
- DirectorJuris KursietisStarsValentin NovopolskijDawid OgrodnikAnna PróchniakA young Latvian butcher travels to Brussels in search of better wage but a series of misfortunes lead him to fall under the sway of a Polish criminal.
- DirectorSigne BaumaneStarsSigne BaumaneSigne Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.
- DirectorMaris MartinsonsStarsKaori MomoiAndrius MamontovasDan LauOne week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it dramatically changes Amaya's perception of her cultural and personal identity.
- DirectorAlexander HahnStarsMaria de MedeirosDominique PinonOrlando WellsA comedy that follows a group of people immersed in Latvia's summer solstice celebration, the shortest night of the year.
- DirectorAik KarapetianStarsIlya ScherbakovAgnese FrisfeldeAndris GrossYoung poor man from suburb tries to change after he falls in love wih a girl from a welthy family, even though he could never have any chance wtih her...
- DirectorLauris AbeleRaitis AbeleStarsKaspars AninsKristaps BedritisLauma BalodeThese are religious rituals, magical and true, the Battle of Saule, the Crusaders battles, our ancestors fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they believe?
- DirectorSergey LivnevStarsAleksey SerebryakovDaniel OlbrychskiElena KorenevaMark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.
- DirectorIeva OzolinaStarsIeva OzolinaZenta KruminaIlgaA detective story about the reappearance of a millionaire lost in Latvia in the 1990s.
- DirectorKristine ZelveStarsDaiga KazocinaMarina JanausAt the end of the Second World War, when the German army retreated from Latvia, it also took along 700 boxes of materials from Latvian museums. If not for a young woman named Merija Grinberga, the exhibition halls of many museums in Latvia would be empty today. Grinberga was the only volunteer who in 1944 went along with the train carrying the treasures of Latvian art in order to return with them back to Riga. The German occupying forces tried to take them away; the Soviet occupation forces brought them back; Merija completed her duty. As gratitude for her journey, Merija was sacked from her job at the museum and incessantly viewed with suspicion.
- DirectorMatiss KazaStarsZanete ZviguleToms VelickoAgnese BudovskaA runaway bride, a young peasant, mysterious illusionists and a manic investigator become entwined in a murderous affair at a Baltic German baron's manor.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaStarsPauls IklavsReinis StabinsTwo 18-year-old guys work in a pizzeria and make grandiose plans for the future, but one night they turn their lives upside down.
- DirectorPavels GumennikovsStarsSergejs FjodorovsJana HerbstaToms VelickoInspired by the incredible true story about a young man Just (24), who is in wheelchair and who sees how the girl he is in love is robbed, so he decides to go after thieves and regain the handbag of the girl he loves.
- DirectorJanis NordsStarsKristofers KonovalovsVita VarpinaMatiss LivcansRaimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsSabine TimoteoEdvins MekssIvars KrastsBased 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.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsRomualds AncansMartins DancausksSigne DundureA story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.
- DirectorRenars VimbaStarsElina VaskaAndzejs LilientalsEdgars SamitisAbandoned by their mother and stuck in a miserable living situation, 17-year old Raya and her adolescent brother Robis must decide between an orphanage or the guardianship of their grandmother, whom they despise.
- DirectorDzintars DreibergsStarsOto BrantevicsGreta TrusinaMartins VilsonsAfter losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis ReinisElita KlavinaGirts KruminsThe First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.
- DirectorGints ZilbalodisA boy and a little bird are on a journey across a strange island trying to get back home.
- DirectorIlze Burkovska JacobsenA personal, animated documentary about the director's life growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era 1970-1990, where Sovjet used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the population.
- DirectorEvgeniy PashkevichStarsSeverija JanusauskaiteLeonid YarmolnikGundars AbolinsThe film is set in the present day in a cultural and ethnographic reserve in Latvia, where the material world and atmosphere of the 1930s has been recreated as fully as possible. Upon entering the retreat, guests are required to leave behind all the accessories of modern life: clothing, vehicles and means of communication. A sudden summer heat wave drives the guests into madness, and the surreal and burlesque situation turns into the opposite of drama - a comedy.
- DirectorGiedre ZickyteStarsWalter CronkiteSimas KudirkaRichard NixonIn 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.
- DirectorMatiss KazaStarsValters DaksaRaimonds KirkisVera MarkovaIn three different parts of the world, three young Latvians attempt to find themselves through nomadic explorations, questioning the different aspects of what it means to be young in the contemporary uncertain world.
- DirectorAndris GaujaStarsElza GaujaAndris KeissKristine NevarauskaRalf has sound recording studio deep in countryside. He is working on his dream project to record Muse. He is living there with wife and daughter and gets involved with young musician. Classic love triangle gets destructive.
- DirectorViesturs Kairiss
- DirectorDidzis EglitisAdina IstrateTriin RuumetStarsKaspars AninsVilnis AuzinsRomans BargaisRIGA - 2041 is a combination of several stories depicting the pursuit of happiness. The story takes place in Riga - city overwhelmed by the cult of happiness. It abounds in commercials of different inventions and technologies claiming to solve any problem. Protagonists change their looks for good; real humans are replaced by projections; "happiness doctor" is a sought-after profession. The viewer can decide for himself, whether happiness can be found in technological solutions, or are we still responsible for our own happiness.
- DirectorDavis Simanis Jr.StarsUlrich MatthesAgnese BudovskaTom J. BenedictIn WW1 German doctor is sent to oversee insane asylum somewhere in Latvia. Here he finds wild boy and try to heal him. He is confronted by rough circumstances and brutal soldiers.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsKarlis Arnolds AvotsKristiana BerzaBaiba BrokaAn aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
- DirectorElza GaujaStarsAnta AizupeVictoria Alexandria BrikmannBaiba BrokaThree sisters, dead broke and disconnected from each other, travel through Europe with their dead mother on top of their van.
- DirectorPeter KingA portrait of the demise and fall of the Soviet Empire as seen through the eyes of the people who endured it. The film explores the power of human spirit in its battle against adversity.
- DirectorInara KolmaneStarsLiene BeinarovicaGuntis BerelisZane BierandeA young, promising doctor destroyed by the Soviet totalitarian regime deprives her daughter of breast milk.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsEdvin EndreJames BloorDainis GrubeOn his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
- DirectorLiene LavinaSoviet dissident Gunars Astra phrase, said in the last word of the trial of the Latvian SSR: "I believe that this time will fade away like an evil nightmare", became a guiding motive.
- DirectorElza GaujaStarsIndra BurkovskaJanis JaransIvars BrakovskisErnests (70) and Alvine (64), two married postal workers, have developed a scheme to win a trip to Rome, but Alvine's rapidly progressing Alzheimer's disease complicates their scheme.
- DirectorGunars PiesisStarsEsmeralda ErmaleGirts JakovlevsPeteris GaudinsUldis goes to marry rich landlady's daughter Zane but he sees orphan Baiba in her backyard and falls in love with her. The restrained Baiba also loves Uldis but cannot become happy if Zane, Gatins and Orta suffers.
- DirectorVaris BraslaGunars CilinskisStarsAstrida KairishaGunars CilinskisLilita OzolinaDoctor Rudolfs spends the summer in the countryside where he meets teacher Laura, the mother of two children and whose husband is in prison. Rudolfs falls in love with Laura but she struggles with a sense of duty to her family.
- DirectorGints ZilbalodisCat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.