Latvia Movies

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

What does the question “to be or not to be?” mean? 86 year-old director Olģerts Kroders stages his fourth production of...

A collection of seemingly unrelated everyday moments is united by a message – a commentary on contemporary reality: when looking at the world...

Comedy Latvia annual stand-up celebration and awarding of the best comedians of 2022.

A short poetic documentary film fashioned in the vein of Riga's poetic documentary films from the 20th century. The film delves into the relationship...

Cheerful, yet obedient Mareks is preparing to celebrate his bachelor party, which is not very pleasing to his dominating fiancée Ilze - in her...

This cinematic epiphany, shot on 16mm film with lightness and gentle humour, pierces the crust of everyday life to reveal the miracle of existence. A...

Some people collect family albums. Sarmīte Sīle, an accomplished arts scholar, takes a nude photo of herself every ten years. Behind this...

A comedy about sex, love, relationships, and taboo. In a multi-story narrative, we peer behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal city.

While current events are being discussed in the news and the residents of Riga are plagued by their everyday worries, cats are fully occupied with...

Aivars becomes a witness to a murder. The killers capture him and take him to the forest to be shot. To stay alive, he figures out how to buy out the...

A dream world where time stands still and memories and fantasies intervene.

The budgerigar is basically a Latvian parrot, a very pompous-looking bird - my grandfather wasn't one. The Pupuķis is also known as the hungry...

The film "Kino diena" (Cinema Day) is a meeting with two documentary filmmakers and life partners, Ivars and Maija Seleckis, for "the length of a...

The story of an abandoned puppy looking for a new friend for himself.

On June 14, 1941, more than 15,000 Latvian inhabitants, including approximately 4,000 children of Latvian, Jewish, Polish and Russian ethnicity were...

It is a hot summer day and the Song Festival rehearsal is underway for the kokle ensemble. The exhausting rehearsal is enlivened by the arrival of...

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

85-year-old Margers stores his life's work in banana boxes - VHS tapes and DVDs that fill an entire room. However, as his eyesight rapidly...

A man continues to throw rubbish into the forest, to the great annoyance of both the forest ranger and the forest animals, but when he refuses to...