Latvia Movies

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...

A film about contemporary society's prejudiced attitude towards prisoners. This attitude causes some inmates to return to prison as a safer, more...

In Soviet Latvia, a family spends a day by the lake. Father and son play ball, but the ball falls into the water. The father almost drowns trying to...

Trains and railroad tracks are the unifying elements in this found footage film made out of fragments from feature films produced in Latvia from 1958...

The white tranquility of mountains is disturbed by colorful winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy downhill skiing.

Munch and Lemmy are playing a stone board game when visitors from outer space arrive on the savannah. The local frogs feel a kinship with the space...

A story about a young mechanic who tries to collect debt during a friend's funeral.

From midnight until early morning you can travel to any suburb of Riga on a streetcar named Help, whose interior becomes a stage for life’s...

A band from the city stops in a shady country bar to play a show. Tired of their stagnating tour the double bass player receives an intriguing...

I was nine years old when my mother took me away from home for the first time – to Leningrad. For those of us behind the Iron Curtain, this was...

To fulfill her dream of opening an animal shelter, Gundega bought a property where she and her mother, Iveta, began building a new life devoted to...

The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for...

Shammies long to have a pet. They know they would need to take care of it and everyone is ready to build a house for it. But what kind of pet it will...

A bunch of friends decide to spend the time of quarantine together in a country house. Seperated from the usual rythm of life, away from the society...

Nils and his two best friends are invited to a 25 year reunion for their student years. Nils is given the task of holding the main speech. This comes...

A portrait of Lars Vilks, the State Secretary of his own micro-nation Ladonia, a sculptor and a scandal-maker (as an art form), and professor of art...

They prepare the resting place for us all. They do their work by standing by the side of people when they are in grief, and are the last hands to...

“Being a composer means sharing joy and love for the possibility of harmony, at least in music,” says Pēteris Vasks, who celebrates...

At the end of World War II, many Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians fled the Soviet rule. They stayed abroad for many years. Now, after the...

The story of the Latvian women's basketball team in the 2019 season – about the 12 team members and coach Mārtiņš...