Latvian films or films made in Latvia

Nine-year-old Paula arrives at her cousin's home in late 1980s Latvia amid political unrest. Her parents are divorcing. She realizes family values matter more than her country's future.

A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.

A series of vignettes explore diverse themes: an immigrant's new life in Italy, surreal imagery blending elderly figures and TVs, sensual encounters, and an aging man's nostalgic reflections on his past.

A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.

Late 19th century Latvia. Coachman Edgars is in love with maid Kristina though unable to overcome her mother's resistance. A charming, wealthy suitor arrives with a proposal but Kristina just can't forget Edgars.

Phone technician Cezars Kalnins in his free time composes songs and performs in a band created with his friends. However getting the band to perform in public has to go a long way in getting permissions.

A painfully ironic story about life in Latvia in 1920s. A poor girl falls in love with an unemployed teacher of French.

Doctor 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.

The struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events.

Monochrome split screen film. Left-hand side shows studio-based cellist playing the musical accompaniment to the film. The right hand-side shows exterior images of people in a cityscape, with main focus being on a girl's journey.

The Crossroad Street is a small street in the outskirts of Latvia's capital Riga, and its various inhabitants with their destinies, everyday routines and neighborly relations form the micro-model of society during the Awakening.

The document captures the tumultuous events of the early 1990s in Latvia when the country was becoming independent country again.

Little Hawk fantasizes being out in the ocean with his father until a storm blows through.

The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. The intriguing black-and-white is a contemporary retro tale about Cinderella's slipper, which, in this variation, is found on the beach in a border zone. Russian soldiers take on the role of the prince. But who is Cinderella?

Una's aunt is not evil, she's just lonely. Wise little Marta, who longs for her puppy just as much as Una's aunt longs for a husband, decides to help.

A story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.

Young 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...

Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.

A silent dissertation on the daily life of a truck driver who delivers clean linens to a children's hospital. He unloads the sheets and divides them up among the wards, where small, gripping dramas of life and death are unfolding. And every day it's the same story.

The morning begins when the mail is delivered - this has been a tradition for almost an eternity. This film looks at daily things, daily movements, daily life and the daily routines of the postman, which are nevertheless meaningful to those who await and receive newspapers and letters.

A documentary film crew arrive at a Latvian garbage dump to investigate reports of a giant mutated worm living in the garbage. When the worm story proves to be a myth, rather than waste their trip, they decide to film the dump itself. Far from being a lifeless wasteland, the dump proves to be home to a multitude of birds and animals and a handful of people, all struggling to survive in an endless cycle of death, decay and rebirth. Insects and snakes, beavers and deer, men and machines play out their roles against the backdrop of an expanse of gently steaming garbage which, thanks to deft camera work, at times seems surreally beautiful.

A deeply personal view on the life of artist Gustav Klucis, one of the foremost representatives of early 20th century Russian avant-guard art, whose life drama reflects the tragedy of a whole nation during the years of Stalin's repressions. It is a story about boundless ambitions, hope, love and artist's responsibility that continues haunting him after his death.

Two young boys are forced to escape their native city of Riga. Later these same boys turn out to be among the most extraordinary personalities of the previous century: one becomes a leading commie film director and the other a mentor to the entire British Empire. This story will reveal the secrets of the remarkably parallel lives between Sergei Eisenstein and Isaiah Berlin.