An adventurous and touching story of Raimonds, a misunderstood adolescent, who trying to reconcile with his mother, delves into the world of trouble and petty crime.
Cast: Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Vārpiņa, Matīss Livčāns, Indra Briķe
Directed by: Jānis Nords
Peter is the most ordinary person. He lives with his mother and works at the office, where he is the butt of his colleagues' jokes. All goes well till his sexually aggressive female boss decides to take him to Africa. And then his pretty colleague starts flirting with him, as well. Tired of all this attention, Peter sneaks into an army base to pick psychedelic mushrooms. So begins the trip that will change Peter's life.
Cast: Andrejs Možeiko, Sandra Zvīgule, Anete Saulīte, Kristians Kareļins, Mareks Balmanis, Dace Eversa
Directed by Ivars Tontegode
Scriptwriter: Ivars Tontegode
Producer: Roberts Vinovskis
Miracles become reality in Riga, especially if a lonely soul craves it at Christmas Eve. The same way, “The Aunties” film characters’ lives - full of loneliness, search and anxiety, are changed by sudden appearance of the three aunties, that are actually angels – Vera (Faith), Nadya (Hope), Lyba (Love).
At the Christmas Eve morning the Aunties appear in Riga at the old painter’s doorstep and bring a whole swirl of action. For one day the aunties accomplish more than a lot. A lonely, desperate pensioner, who was close to death, unexpectedly finds a family, starts to do sports and even to travel. His granddaughter Masha, who was nearly fooled by a Latvian gold-digger, find her true love (Nikolay Efremov). An Arab sheikh, who got lost in snowy fields and who nearly was deceived by the criminals (Ivars Kalnins and Nikita Efremov), finally closes a successful deal and falls in love with a fiery red hair beauty – “the queen of suburbs”, as she notices herself - Lylka. Some romantic adventures are expected for some other characters, as well – for a perfect institute concierge (Mirdza Martinsone), for a plumber Fyodor (Kamil Larin), for mandarin seller (Mikhail Efremov), who also, somehow, become a part of this small, intelligent family’s story.
This is the story about Miracle, which can be met by each of us on Riga narrow streets. Kind humor, dynamic optimism and an excellent performance of the actors will create the mood for the New Year’s Eve, and moreover, will give a charge of a positive energy for the whole year.
Finally, after the 15 years long period of silence – the music for the film was wrote the fabulous maestro Raimonds Pauls.
The film is a story based on historical events about two outstanding personalities of the 20th century, Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin, both of whom were born and spent their childhood in Riga but soon left the city. Following the course of the lives of both protagonists against the background of the dramatic events of the first half of the 20th century, the film shows how one of them became the „most brilliant film director of his generation” in the totalitarian USSR and the other „the most brilliant thinker of his generation” in liberal UK.
The old witch Black Mother seeks to control the world thorough sadness, by draining the tears of all who suffer loss. Her latest target is the Princess, whose demise should prompt enough tears to grant her absolute power.
During a picnic in the woods, Black Mother entraps the Princess and soon encases her in a glass coffin. But her powerful nemesis, old White Father, intercedes to set up an obstacle. He raises from the site an impossibly tall and steep ice mountain, at the top of which stands a chapel where the Princess will sleep for seven years and seven days before Black Mother can have her.
Cast: Edgars Kaufelds, Zane Dombrovska, Laima Vaikule, Uldis Dumpis, Edgars Lipors, Jānis Kirmuška, Ģirts Jakovļevs, Inese Ramute, Gunārs Placēns, Andris Bērziņš, Jānis Jarāns, Pēteris Šogolovs, Dainis Porgants
Directed by Reinis Kalnaellis
A new teacher, Zane (Inga Alsiņa-Lasmane) tries to befriend the class she is mentoring, but she goes too far -- at Zane's parties and on her field trips, the border between the teacher and the students begins to blur and dissolve. When one of her students falls in love with her, Zane find herself in a tangled web of personal conflicts.
Modris is a 17-year-old with a gambling addiction which makes his relationship with mother difficult. Things come to a head in the middle of the Nordic winter when Modris pawns his mother’s electric heater so he can play the slot machines. She betrays him to the police, and as he begins his adventures in the Latvian justice system, Modris becomes determined to find the father he never knew.
The film is based on true events that took place in the vicinity of Līvāni in 1945 after the return of the Soviet occupation. The Catholic priest Antons Juhņevičs served in the Vanagi parish, and he hid local men in the household premises of the church to let them escape from the mobilisation in the Red Army. Having found himself to be in conflict with the ruling power due to his conviction, he was forced to decide on a radical step.
The film "Alias Loner" is a documentary based on historic facts; however, the scene-setting dramatic events are just a reason to talk about the existential choices of a human life. Faithfulness and heroism so closely followed by betrayal and cowardice, or a simple wish to survive – all of this is present in the fates of Antons Juhņevičs and his companions-in-arms.
This is the debut film of the film director and script writer Normunds Pucis.
The historic persons are played by the actors Varis Piņķis, Vilis Daudziņš, Edgars Samītis, Andris Bulis, Juris Bartkevičs, Juris Jope, Edgars Pujāts, Rihards Rudāks, Māris Korsietis, Egils Viļumovs, Ritvars Gailums, and Valdemārs Karpačs.
The film music is written by the internationally acknowledged Latvian composer of sacred music Rihards Dubra.
A business executive lays off hundreds of harbor workers after they go on strike. He and his wife plan to escape the stress by taking an Italian vacation. On the evening before the trip, one of the fired workers, dressed in an orange harbor worker safety jacket, slips into their home. Although his immediate actions reveal a murderous intent, revenge is only the initial step.
The film DAWN heralds a morally confused world in the recent past – the Soviet era, when adults and children alike lost their bearings in the name of so-called ideals. Son betrayed father; father betrayed son.
Unfortunately DAWN is not only about the past, as the desire of totalitarian regimes to turn people into dull cogs-in-machines seems eternal – limited neither by time nor space.
Film in Latvian with subtitles in English.
The final year of WWI. A German army surgeon Ulrich is sent to inspect a remote convalescent home for shell-shocked patients. The strange world he encounters where reality appears more like fiction is quite challenging for his cold rational mind. His fruitless efforts to remodel the place and an unexpected attachment to a mysterious savage boy from the surrounding woods lead Ulrich to discover his one true self. Very soon this turned-out sanctuary will have to make its last stand against the approaching madness of the war.
Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love reveal the character of Raya, a 17-year-old living in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. A staggering turn of events shakes up their lives, and the young girl must come to decisions that even a grown woman would find difficult to make. In his strong debut feature, director Renārs Vimba carefully handles the delicate theme of coming-of-age and accepts the challenge of telling the story through the eyes of a young girl.