Austeja's parents get a job opportunity they do not want to say no to, and send their daughter to the country with the grandparents together with another child, Martynas. The children are bored at first, but they quickly discover that their stay in the country is anything but boring.
A documentary on elderly Naivist painters in 90ies Latvia. These people find a lot of joy and harmony in their amazing creations even if they might not know a lot about the conventional art.
A tribute to late Latvian documentary film director Juris Podnieks. It was his plan to make this film about Latvia and Russia after the collapse of the USSR.
The film is based on the novel by Romualdas Granauskas, winner of the Lithuanian National Cultural and Arts Award, and is the chronicle of a young man’s shifting relationships as he adjusts rather dramatically to the unfamiliarity of freedom. The film will be shown in Lithuanian with English...
A documentary by Janina Lapinskaitė about the social clown Joana. Dressed in colorful clothes and a red nose, the depressed woman visits hospitals with a team of actors to brighten up the daily lives of children with serious illnesses.
A documentary about art in a closed society - prison art. The protagonists, who are serving their sentences for various crimes, reveal their worldview.
The film relates the story of the Kriauleidziai family, who lost the roof over their heads after fire engulfed their home. It also demonstrates man's ability to come to terms with misfortune, not to lose heart, but to start afresh.
The first part of the film – Island of Crete – was created in 2007, as an independent work. The second part – “Confession" – is like an other half of the Island of Crete, which reveals the reality of it as evidence of a rather cruel creative mechanism occasionally opens up even coercive...
A film about marginalized people who have hit rock bottom and are trying to pick themselves up again. They arrive in a remote religious community, do their daily chores, and perhaps turn to God for the first time.
The film portrays the political situation in occupied Latvia 37 years ago, when writer Imants Ziedonis formed a group of like-minded peers into ‘’Dižkoku atbrīvotāji’’ – DAGi. Film reels and photos of the time show Imants Ziedonis and the DAGi participants – Māra Zālīte, Anna...
Director Zigurds Vidiņš has been following Lidija Lasmane-Doroņina for more than 10 years with his camera. She was arrested in 1946, 1970 and 1983 by the Soviet regime, spending a total of 14 years in prison, her only crime: the dream of an independent Latvia. Thanks to Mikhail Gorbachev’s...
