Mirta, an old woman from the countryside, wins a car in a lottery and suddenly has to play host to a houseful of scarcely-seen relatives. Her nephew Ēriks, his wife Dagnija and son Uģis, and her former daughter-in-law Olita, husband Viktors and daughter Lāsma would all like to get the car, and each tries to influence Mirta. But before dying, she remembers her old admirer Pigalu Prīdis.
In 1995, during the festivities marking 100 years of cinema, Limousine the Colour of St. John's Night was recognized as the best Latvian film of all time.
Cast: Lilita Bērziņa, Uldis Dumpis, Olga Dreģe, Gundars Āboliņš, Baiba Indriksone, Boļeslavs Ružs, Diāna Zande, Līga Liepiņa, Romualds Ancāns, Ēvalds Valters
Directed by Jānis Streičs
Scriptwriter: Māra Svīre
Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) thinks he is God's gift at his high school. He plays a prank on a fellow high school student, Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) who, unbeknown to him is a witch. Kendra teaches him a lesson by putting a curse on him making him as beastly on the outside as he is on the inside. He has one year to find someone to fall in love with him or stay like that forever.
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a talented attorney at a top New York law firm, a generous and loyal friend and, unhappily, still single...as her engaged best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson) is constantly reminding her. But after one drink too many at her 30th birthday party, perpetual good girl Rachel unexpectedly ends up in bed with the guy she's had a crush on since law school, Dex (Colin Egglesfield), who just happens to be Darcy's fiance. When Rachel and Darcy's lifelong friendship collides with true love, it leads to unexpected complications and potentially explosive romantic revelations. Meanwhile, Ethan (John Krasinski), who has been Rachel's constant confidante and sometimes conscience, has been harboring a secret of his own, and Marcus (Steve Howey), an irrepressible womanizer, can't keep his mind out of the gutter or his hands off any girl within reach.
Casting: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, Steve Howey, John Krasinski
Directed by: Luke Greenfield
A romantic buddy movie about the meaning of relationships, the importance of friendship and having the courage to pursue the one you love. A 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
Casting: Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne StrahovskiPeter Helliar, Megan Gale
Directed by: Daina Reid
This is the final part of the war trilogy about division commander Kotov and the fate of a whole country. After a journey through labour camps and battle fields, Kotov returns home. Memories of home helped him cope with this dreadful time. But in his absence, much has changed. His fragile world has broken into pieces, and he is again forced to take on a fight to defend his name, honor, love and his Citadel...
Cast: Виктория Толстоганова, Владимир Ильин, Олег Меньшиков, Никита Михалков, Надежда Михалкова, Дмитрий Дюжев, Андрей Панин, Михаил Ефремов, Валентин Гафт, Анна Михалкова, Андрей Мерзликин, Павел Деревянко
Directed by: Никита Михалков
Babylen Tatarsky has found a place for himself in modern times. He works at an advertising agency that introduces and adapts foreign brands for a ‘Russian mentality’. This clever and sometimes unbelievably funny film, rife with special effects and surprising revelations uses simple language to talk about a complicated situation, in which former Young Pioneers have to start a new life in the advertising industry.
The film is an adaptation of Victor Pelevin’s novel Generation ‘П’. Throughout the plot, many hallucinations are used, including Che Guevara’s speech on the degrading influence of television on humans. However, within this deformed reality a carefully reconstructed atmosphere of 90s Moscow (the background of the film’s action) can be clearly felt.
Cast: Владимир Епифанцев, Михаил Ефремов, Андрей Фомин, Сергей Шнуров, Владимир Меньшов, Иван Охлобыстин, Рената Литвинова и др.
Directed by: Виктор Гинзбург
Crime and punishment – this theme is immortal. Boris Godunov is about conscience and existential choice, connected to the history of a nation. Pushkin himself has stated that in this work, they are tangled in a mysterious knot or pattern. Our choice can also be history’s choice. One wrong individual decision can cause a fatal chain of events. Furthermore, if this person has been granted power, it can affect the whole country.
Cast: Максим Суханов, Ольга Гутшмидт-Остроумова, Михаил Козаков, Андрей Мерзликин, Петр Федоров, Дмитрий Певцов и др.
Directed by: Владимир Мирзоев
He is a clerk, she – a museum employee. He has come to a small provincial town to help the district governor seize the museum’s land in order to build a new residence. But his meeting with Her changes not just his opinion on the situation, but his entire viewpoint on life...
Cast: Федор Бондарчук, Ксения Раппопорт, Ирина Розанова и др..
Directed by: Авдотья Смирнова
Black and white 1960s style. Zhuzha likes the twist and Gerard Philippe movies. Petya plays the dulcimer and loves his Moskvich with the engine of a Zaporozhets. The third person doesn’t like talking about himself, and in his presence everyone else should shut up too...
The film Indifference was created as a declaration of love. Filming began in 1989, but it could not be completed, and the director returned to the material 20 years later.
Cast: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksandr Bashirov, Olga Shorina, Sergey Bragin, Artem Prokin, Alexei Taratorin, Yuri Pavlov, Alexander Sazonov, Andrey Abramov, Andrey Romanov, Dmitri Nezhvedski, Inna Vikhodtseva, Nikolay Kokhturev, Elizaveta Buzdakova, Vera Panfilova, Aleksey Kozin, Oksana Litvinova, Yulia Sokolova
Directed by: Oleg Flyangolts
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Casting: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to her native region of Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place on her own, restlessly testing the boundaries of the unfamiliar city. Marta’s only source of socialization is the local church, where she attends a series of catechism classes in preparation for her upcoming confirmation. A gritty exploration of a realistic coming-of-age tale that tackles questions of faith in impoverished southern Italy.
Cast: Yile Vianello, Salvatore Cantalupo, Pasqualina Scuncia, Anita Caprioli, Renato Carpentieri
Directed by: Alice Rohrwacher