Havana in 1958 is a place of pleasure for many, but others are not happy under the rule of dictator Fulgencio Batista. As the revolutionary forces of Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara prepare to move on the city, Fico Fellove (Andy Garcia)-owner of the city's classiest music nightclub, El Tropico-struggles to hold together his family and the love of a woman (Inés Sastre), not knowing that his club will become more than just a stage for popular entertainment.
Observing all is The Writer (Bill Murray) an expatriate American who sees Fico being drawn into events as the revolution changes everything. Though Fico watches a culture vanish and a people transformed, it is his love of Cuban music that keeps his memories alive.
Andy Garcia (Modigliani) stars and makes his directorial debut in a passionate and historical tribute to his native Cuba. Co-starring Dustin Hoffman and Steven Bauer. Written by Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Cast: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray
Directed by Andy Garcia
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
In 1914, "The Great War" - WWI - began in Europe. America chose at first not to fight, but some altruistic young Americans disagreed. A handful of volunteers decided to learn how to fly. The first of them - a squadron of only 38 - became known as the Lafayette Escadrille. In time, America joined their cause. The Escadrille pilots became legendary. Flyboys is inspired by their story.
Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) along with the other young Americans arrives in France, unable to speak the language and challenged by learning to operate a device that was only invented 10 years prior to the war-the airplane. At this point in time, France has been in battle for three years and has lost millions of men in battle.
Blaine and his squadron are trained under the command of the French Captain Thenault (Jean Reno). He and the other French pilots put the boys under vigorous training to prepare them for aerial combat. What they didn't realize was that they were about to embark on a great, romantic adventure, becoming the world's first combat pilots.
But it is when Rawlings falls in love with a local French woman named Lucienne he learns firsthand the costs of war as it has affected her and her family. When Lucienne finds herself behind enemy lines, Rawlings risks everything to save her and her family. Fighting a war that wasn't theirs, these young, na?ve adventure-seekers slowly learn the true meaning of love, brotherhood, heroism, courage, tolerance and, in return, gain a true reason to risk their lives.
Cast: James Franco, Jean Reno, David Ellison, Martin Henderson, Jennifer Decker
Directed by Tony Bill
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) - the most powerful woman in fashion - Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the world, Miranda has let nothing stand in her way … including a long line of assistants that didn't make the cut. It's a job no self-respecting person can survive, yet it's an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for.
A stint as Miranda's assistant could blast-open the doors for recent college graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway). More college drab than haute couture, she stands alone among the small army of "Clackers" on staff at Runway - superslim fashion divas clacking their stilettos down the halls of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. But when Andy comes in for the job, it dawns on her that making it in this industry will take more than drive and determination.
And her ultimate test stands before her in head-to-toe Prada.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anna Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier
Directed by David Frankel
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
When Matt Saunders meets Jenny Johnson, he thinks he's found the perfect girl. However, he decides to break things off with her when she becomes too needy, controlling, and jealous. Jenny doesn't take it well and decides to get back at him by using her superpowers, as it turns out Jenny is a superhero named G-Girl. Meanwhile, Matt and his co-worker, Hannah start to have a romance with each other which sends Jenny over the edge.
Cast: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris
Directed by Ivan Reitman
In English with subtitiles in Latvian and Russian.
Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen - John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno - who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went in to help people escape. The film also follows their families as they try to find out what happened to them, as well as the rescuers who found them in the debris field and pulled them out. Their story shows how the best in people rose above the tragic events of that day.
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pe?a, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jay Hernandez
Directed by Oliver Stone
English language with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) has a unique talent for discerning the scents and smells that swirl around him, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. Strangely lacking any scent of his own, he becomes obsessed with capturing the irresistible but elusive aroma of young womanhood. As Grenouille's obsession turns deadly, twelve young girls are found murdered. Panic breaks out as people rush to protect their daughters, while an unrepentant and unrelenting Grenouille still lacks the final ingredient to complete his quest.
Based on the bestselling novel by Patrick Süskind.
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Ben Whishaw
Directed by Tom Tykwer
English language with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in far off California.
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano
Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
This is concert film and at the same time film - opposition, where intersect autumn-winter landscapes of Kazakh steppe and world famous arias of classical opera - Puchini,Verdi, Glinka, Shuman, Brams.
On the early snow two strange women and one man are driving each other in a sledge, warming by the fire, flying on airplane, glazing sky-blue sheep, and in the same time singing with supernatural voices arias from classical, mainly romantic, opera. Actions of this musical film take place among ancient ruins, located in some abstract place of earth. In the center of narration - former actresses, who during their journey found among this ruins old piano and started to perform opera arias, accompanying each other on the instrument. Presenter is Renata Litvinova. This invisible to the whole world concert is accompanied with memories about scenic past - sad and amusing.
Cast: Renata Litvinova, Eriks Kurmangalijevs, Roza Dzamanova
Directed by Rustams Hamdamovs
Valya with a university degree gets the job in the police station, where during investigation experiments he has to imitate crime victims. Group of investigators, which consists of charismatic captain, ensign Luda with camera and rather stupid sergeant, daily takes out defendants to the places of the crimes, where is supposed to restore the whole picture of the tragedy. Additional madness to the situation brings criminals themselves: first threw out of the window own wife, second have drown his beloved in the pool, third for no apparent reason shouted at his friend in the Japan restaurant… naturally, all this investigations are organized for a show (the outcome of the case is prejudged, the criminal will be convicted), what creates the background of light nonsense.
Cast: Jurijs Chursins, Vitalijs Hajevs, Marats Basharovs, Anna Mihalkova, Lija Ahedzakova, Marina Goluba, Maksims Konovalovs
Directed by Kirils Serebrennikovs
977 - code number, concerned with attempt to "examine the harmony with algebra", to find the rules of mathematics in the emotional and mental sphere of the human beings. Movie heroes - voluntary members of an experiment - undergo not only scientific examinations, but also a number of quite life's trials with friendship, love, attraction, envy and "the strongest fit of passion" - curiosity. As a result scientific experiment turns into human, result - not predictable…
Cast: Fjodors Lavrovs, Klaudija Koršunova, Jekaterina Golubeva, Pāvels Ļubimcevs, Alise Hazanova, Andrejs Kazakovs, Olga Demidova, Sergejs Cepovs, Igors Ovčiņņikovs
Directed by Nikolajs Homeriki
20 years old Lenya lives in ordinary country town - there are a lot of such tows in Russia: town, which has only one kinder garden, one school and one factory. Therefore while man is growing up, he doesn't have to choose nor kinder garden, nor school, nor factory: everything is already defined. Lenya is ordinary boy: like other boys of his age, goes to discos to dance with girls, after fights with local hooligans. Everything is fine, because everything is clear.
Suddenly factory closed, and order leaves the main hero's life. For the first time he has to make choice - for the first time he seriously starts thinking, what he would really like to do in this world… Further life forms from sequence of meetings with different people. Lenya is seeking for a job, and without any difficulties gets the best variants, each of them provides future, prospects and new world: friends, teachers and geography.
But because of different, more casual, reasons Lenya doesn't agree to accept any of these jobs. Only a place of learner in the road worker brigade has interested him - too charming and unusual seemed brigadier Roslov. But idol appeared not so honest and fair proletarian…
Cast: Aleksandrs Jacenko, Darja Jekamasova , Jevģēnijs Sitijs, Pjotrs Zaičenko, Boriss Petrovs, Tagirs Rahimovs, Ņina Semjonova, Aleksejs Ošurkovs
Directed by Boriss Hļebnikovs
With the tragic demise of his twenties fast approaching, Michael gets a fistful of reality when his long-time girlfriend Jenna becomes pregnant. Toiling with the idea of settling in to a life of husbandry and fatherhood, Michael gets a surprise side order of confusion when an instant and irrefutable attraction forms between him and 18-year-old Kim. While Michael's best friends weigh their own responsibilities against the desire to take a trip to South America, Jenna's parents attempt to navigate the rough waters of their fatigued marriage. 'The Last Kiss' trails three generations of characters grappling with life's many ups and downs.
Cast: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston, Eric Christian Olsen
Directed by Tony Goldwyn