Latvia Movies

A highlight of Baltic culture, the festival dedicated to Latvian song and dance celebrates its 150th anniversary in Riga.

How did Hardijs Lediņš' unique personality develop? This TV documentary explores how, during the bleakest period of Soviet stagnation,...

Comedy Latvia's annual stand-up show and awards ceremony.

Marija returns to Latvia hoping to regain not only a sense of home, but also her close relationship with her friend, Sofija. Longing for the freedom...

When there is nowhere left to hide, only the voice remains.

In the summer of 1941, German troops began a series of mass executions in the Latvian coastal city of Liepāja. Over the course of several...

In one long take lasting nearly an hour and a half, three well-known Latvian actors re-stage scenes from renowned Soviet Latvian movies made under...

Children, sitting around the table, are engaged in "adult" conversations.

The story of young lives in the young offenders unit in Cēsis, Latvia. A place governed by its own codes and order, where unwritten rules are...

A story about a boy's attempt to get his own hat. Based on the book and drawings of Latvian author Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš.

An exceptional museum in Sweden houses the Vasa sailboat – a ship that has been lifted out from the bottom of the sea where it ended up after...

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 full-length documentary is a story about painter Biruta Delle, who is of the so-called “Uncensored” generation in Latvian art. It is...

Little children have a bad habit of sucking their thumbs, so in the old days mothers used to frighten them with the Scissorman - a tailor who will...

Frosty snowflakes turn into the flowers of sakura, when lonely old man's hands enfold a cup of hot tea. The last days of famous Japanese haiku master...

Curonians is a historical documentary about one of the ancient Baltic tribes. The Curonians lived in the western parts of modern-day Latvia from the...

Through expressive poetic cinematography this film offers a “poem” on the hundreds of worker-bees behind the annual celebrations of...

This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs others on how to find them. Since they started in...

The bee has not yet been born, but its fate has already been decided – work to collect honey. But even bees can "fall out of frame". This also...