Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl *20th Anniversary*

Original "Pirates of the Carribean" ar celebrating it's 20th Anniversary and we are inviting you to experience it on the BIG SCREEN - meet your favourite heroes such as Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan, Barbossa, Norrington and, of course, the legendary Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp: This swash-buckling tale follows the quest of Captain Jack Sparrow, a savvy pirate, and Will Turner, a resourceful blacksmith, as they search for Elizabeth Swann. Elizabeth, the daughter of the governor and the love of Will's life, has been kidnapped by the feared Captain Barbossa.

2h 23min

Release Date: 03.10.2023

The Room & The Disaster Artist: An Evening with Greg Sestero 2

"Kino Kults" and "Forum Cinemas" presents a sequel to "An Evening With Greg Sestero" and invites you to experience the cult classic "The Room" together with it's lead actor Greg Sestero & a screening of “The Disaster Artist”, an adaptation of Greg’s famous book about making of “The Room”. Double-feature presentation includes: - "The Room" (2003, 91min) with an introduction by Greg Sestero. English with english subtitles."Miracle Valley" (2021, 90min) with an introduction by Greg Sestero.

3h 40min

Release Date: 04.10.2023

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Mr. Fox (George Clooney) is known for stealing things. Then, when he figures out the three nastiest, toughest and most meanest farmers called Walter Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Nathan Bunce (Hugo Guinness), and Franklin Bean (Sir Michael Gambon), he decides to raid them. But, it ends up in a horrible way when they know that Mr. Fox has stolen all of their things, so it's up to Mr. Fox to save his family from all of the three farmer's schemes that they are plotting to kill Mr. Fox. The movie is in English with subtitles in Latvian.

1h 27min

Release Date: 05.10.2023

Inception (2010)

Kino Kults | Inception (2010)

Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable.

2h 30min

Release Date: 07.10.2023

Dunkirk

Kino Kults | Dunkirk (2017)

From filmmaker Christopher Nolan ("Interstellar," "Inception," "The Dark Knight" Trilogy) comes the epic action thriller "Dunkirk". "Dunkirk" opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. "Dunkirk" features a prestigious cast, including Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and Cillian Murphy. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.

1h 47min

Release Date: 10.10.2023

Kino Kults: The Thing (1982)

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. The movie is in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.

1h 49min

Release Date: 11.10.2023

Blue Jean

In 1988 the conservative Thatcher government proposes Section 28, a law which equates gays and lesbians with pedophiles and bans the promotion of homosexuality in public. Sports coaches are the first victims of the resulting homophobic attacks and Jean is forced to live a double life. On weekdays she is popular with her high school students and colleagues, but on the weekends she and her girlfriend Viv venture into the nightlife of Newcastle's queer clubs. When a pupil confronts her in a lesbian bar, Jean's "secret life" is upended. A brilliant debut film from British director Georgia Oakley.

1h 37min

Release Date: 13.10.2023

One Last Evening

Letzter Abend

Moving from Hanover to Berlin one summer during the pandemic, Clemens and Lisa decide to throw a farewell party and invite their friends. She is studying to be a doctor's assistant, he is a talented musician stuck in a melancholy phase. Their good intentions are dashed when their friends change their plans at short notice and uninvited guests arrive in their place. The subsequent dinner party conjures up a symphony of pretty big conflicts, drives, longings, resentments and despair, unfolding for the hosts as well as their guests.

1h 31min

Release Date: 13.10.2023

The Eternal Daughter

Middle-aged director Julie returns to the family home where she spent her childhood together with her mother and her dog. It is now a hotel, swept by cold winds and inhabited only by whispers. The women are the only visitors. Celebrating her mother Rosalind's birthday and hoping to finish the script for her film, the mist slowly reveals what it has been hiding. The two women's memories collide: while Rosalind remembers the place with a suppressed melancholy, Julie has only experienced the good. Without asking, the past begins to mock the present.

1h 37min

Release Date: 14.10.2023

Luka

The enemy approaches from the north. Luka, a skilled sniper, is ready to do whatever it takes to protect his homeland from being invaded. He crosses the scorched earth from region 27, heading for the outpost Fort Kairos. Waiting for him there is the General and the troops that guard the land from what is to come. Beyond, to the north, there is nothing but emptiness and the enemy. Luka does not yet know that the impending battle – thoughts of an attack that will seemingly never come, an enemy that might never arrive – will slip into paranoia.

1h 34min

Release Date: 14.10.2023

Légua

The owners barely visit this ancient house in northern Portugal anymore. It has spread out like a mute testimony to a bygone age. Emília, an elderly housekeeper, has become its landlady and is doing her best to keep the house alive. Her enormous commitment to high standards might be sufficient, but it is not strong enough to ward off reminders of physical exhaustion. She is assisted by her friend Ana, who is dreaming of a better life in France. Her daughter Mónica begins to question the two women's choices to sacrifice themselves with such selflessness and solidarity.

1h 59min

Release Date: 15.10.2023

Let The River Flow

La elva leve (Ellos Eatnu)

1979. Ester has just moved to the north of Norway to start working in a primary school. Being Sámi, she feels an innate, even unintentional shame about her origins – the 20-year-old tries to fit in, make racist jokes, and blend in with everyone else. Soon, her cousin Mihkkal takes her to a protest on the Alta river to stop the construction of a dam. When members of the Sámi community call for a hunger strike in front of the parliament building in Oslo, Ester needs to choose who she wants to be and whether she is willing to give up a part of herself.

1h 58min

Release Date: 16.10.2023

About Dry Grasses

Samet yearns to leave this snowy oblivion. After spending three years as a visual arts teacher in a small village in Eastern Turkey, he spends his free time between classes with one of his students and despises his life. His thoughts are elsewhere – he believes he should work at a better school in Istanbul. When the details about his relationship with a student become public, things take a turn for the worse for Samet. Will the restlessness ever end?

3h 17min

Release Date: 18.10.2023

Erik Stoneheart: Riga IFF Premiere

Erik Kivisüda: Riga IFF Premiere

Erik is a loner who is convinced that his heart is made of stone. The 11-year-old doesn't mind that his parents are always busy with everything else, leaving him on his own. When his family moves to his aunt Brunhilda's inherited property, Erik is very reluctant to stay. When he discovers that another family is living in the house and that his parents want to kick them out, Erik gets to know Maria. She has an idea for how her family could stay – they both need to find Maria's mother, then Erik and his parents won't have to live here.

1h 45min

Release Date: 19.10.2023

No Home Movies

“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back,” wrote James Baldwin in Giovanni’s Room. The films here deal with this vital and fragile notion of belonging to somewhere. A family, a country, a safe space you can find in the smallest details (a reassuring hue, like in the melodrama The Color of the Room (Dir. Iván Löwenberg)), or unlikely setting (a goal where a football player can daydream, like in the colourful Now. Here (Dir. Hao Zhao)). Homes can seem too familiar, limited, and precarious for the characters of After Dawn (Dir.

1h 34min

Release Date: 19.10.2023

Music for Magicians

“Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people (..). I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth.” This quote is from Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire. Pick a film, any film from the programme – it will be part of a genealogy of cinematic spells, mysteries, and wonders. Witness how the statues of Such Miracles Do Happen rise (Dir. Barbara Rupik), sparkle,and walk! Experience the earthly delights and the sensual rhythms of The Convent Gardener (Dir. Patrícia Neves Gomes)!

1h 36min

Release Date: 19.10.2023

What Have You Done?

“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself,” wrote George Orwell in 1984. This programme could be the basis for a theory of human action, questioning causalities and responsibilities. Here, boy meets girl in various scenarios. A watchman faces his own sense of duty in The Guard (Dir. Amirhossein Shojaei). A conference in a hotel is a #MeToo challenge between two old acquaintances in How To Be a Human Being (Dir. Jorė Janavičiūtė). Writing a punk song about a construction worker leads to comical results in Bye, Bye Bowser (Dir. Jasmin Baumgartner).

1h 34min

Release Date: 20.10.2023

Before and After Humanity

Thanks to global warming and ChatGPT, we’re used to the idea of a world without us. And accordingly, the filmmakers of this programme chart a map of disappearing humanity. Poetic climate change? See what would happen if it rained indoors, not outdoors, in The Eastern Rain (Dir. Milly Yencken). AI? Be unsettled by the machine-generated aesthetics of Planets and Robots (Dir. Julius Zubavičius, Antanas Skučas), where there is no human life behind its images. So, what is left when everybody has gone? Hopefully, as the darkly humorous Drijf (Dir.

1h 26min

Release Date: 20.10.2023

Munch

Edvard Munch represents something different for different people: existentialist, art icon, tortured talented soul, trembling lover, or commentator on his era. In Christiania, he experiences a tingling love in anticipation of his autumn exhibition. Later, in Berlin, he launches what in art history will come to be known as the "Munch Affair", himself incredulous that something as innocent as a painting could cause such a scandal. Making a life-changing decision, he soon enters a psychiatric clinic and during the years of the occupation, he protects his works while trying to save himself.

1h 44min

Release Date: 21.10.2023

MET Opera: Dead Man Walking

American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, "Dead Man Walking" matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen.

3h 14min

Release Date: 21.10.2023

The Peasants

The turn of the previous century. As the seasons change, the life of the local people of Lipce is subordinated to the harvest and the will of nature, and the life of the village to laws and customs. The future of the young peasant Jagna is dictated by her family – she is forced to become the wife of the wealthy Maciej, although her heart lies with the son of her suitor, Antek. In order to keep her independence, she becomes the object of envy and hatred among the locals: the more she resists, the more she destroys the established order.

1h 54min

Release Date: 22.10.2023

Exhibition On Screen | Klimt and the Kiss

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognised and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm walls from Beijing to Boston. Painted in Vienna around 1908, the evocative image of an unknown embracing couple has captivated viewers with its mystery, sensuality and dazzling materials ever since it was created. But just what lies behind the appeal of the painting – and just who was the artist that created it?

1h 30min

Release Date: 02.11.2023

MET Opera. X: Life and Times of Malcolm X

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life.

3h 42min

Release Date: 18.11.2023

MET Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas

Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The Met premiere stars soprano Ailyn Pérez as Florencia Grimaldi, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to lead a spellbinding new production by Mary Zimmerman that brings the mysterious and magical realm of the Amazon to the Met stage.

2h 35min

Release Date: 09.12.2023

MET Opera: Nabucco

Ancient Babylon comes to life in this classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze stars as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska, reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille. Mezzo-soprano Maria Barakova and tenor SeokJong Baek are Fenena and Ismaele, whose love transcends politics, and bass Dmitry Belosselskiy repeats his celebrated portrayal of the high priest Zaccaria.

3h 6min

Release Date: 06.01.2024

MET Opera: Carmen

Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries.

3h 44min

Release Date: 27.01.2024

MET Opera: La Forza del Destino

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines. Director Mariusz Treliński delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly 30 years, setting the scene in a contemporary world and making extensive use of the Met’s turntable to represent the unstoppable advance of destiny that drives the opera’s chain of calamitous events.

4h 22min

Release Date: 09.03.2024

MET Opera: Romeo et Juliette

Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin Bernheim—come together as the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct one of the repertoire’s most romantic scores. Bartlett Sher’s elegant staging also features baritone Will Liverman and tenor Frederick Ballentine as the archrivals Mercutio and Tybalt, mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as the mischievous pageboy Stéphano, and bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Frère Laurent.

3h 31min

Release Date: 23.03.2024

MET Opera: La Rondine

Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess. Maestro Speranza Scappucci conducts Nicolas Joël’s Art Deco–inspired staging, which transports audiences from the heart of Parisian nightlife to a dreamy vision of the French Riviera. Soprano Emily Pogorelc and tenor Bekhzod Davronov complete the sterling cast as Lisette and Prunier.

2h 47min

Release Date: 20.04.2024

MET Opera: Madama Butterfly

Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong reprises the role of the steadfast maid Suzuki, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the American consul Sharpless. Acclaimed maestro Xian Zhang takes the podium to conduct Anthony Minghella’s vivid production.

3h 15min

Release Date: 11.05.2024