Latvian Movies

Soviet dissident Gunars Astra phrase, said in the last word of the trial of the Latvian SSR: "I believe that this time will fade away like an evil nightmare", became a guiding motive.

Young man meets Latvia's strongest witches. Exploring themes of love, sexuality, magic and being true to oneself, the story unfolds more confusion as it drifts into rituals, spells and delusion.

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

Portrayal of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.

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 chronological story of how newly freedom proclaimed Latvia secured it's freedom in Latvian war of independence in the most significant 1919 autumn period from Berlin puppet army from the west and Communist regime from the east.

The first Story of Soviet Techno Revolution "In the USSR that was the beginning of a new era. The Era of Dance".

Interviews with last living Latvian riflemen. Volunteers who fought in WWI, Latvian war of independence and Russian civil war.

The love story of the fisherman's son Arturs and landlord's daughter Marta, dating back to the 1930s, through World War II and until the post-war years. The long and cruel life path for both of them until they meet again in the motherland.

A personal, animated documentary about the director's life growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era 1970-1990, where Sovjet used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the population.

The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.

A personal tale of political courage

After losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.

An aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.

Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.

A young spirited woman, Zelma, is determined to conform to the pressures of singing Mythology Sirens in order to be loved, but the more she conforms, the more her body resists. A story of inner female rebellion.