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Black Velvet

Melnais samts

Marta (in her thirties) has a job, some friends, a boyfriend and the world's best cat. Her life seems fine from the outside, yet Marta can't help but feel like she has been faking this whole adulthood thing. When Marta's best friend Kaspars comes back to town for a while, she finds herself in a series of increasingly overwhelming events. The movie is in Latvian with English subtitles.

1h 32min

Release Date: 23.02.2024

Soviet Milk

Mātes piens

Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease mother’s depression and learn to live in the depressive Soviet regime herself. The lifelines of mother and daughter flow in the occupied Soviet Latvia from 1945 to 1989. The story based on the bestseller “Soviet Milk” by Nora Ikstena. Movie in Latvian and Russian with subtitles in English and Russian.

1h 52min

Release Date: 03.02.2023

Accidental Santa

Circenīša Ziemassvētki

A witty Christmas adventure movie for the whole family. Police officer Erwin and his family arrive at their countryside home in a grim mood and unexpectedly meet Santa Claus. Little Martha and her brother Tom drag him into their scheme to save the family, while their parents start preparing for the celebration, unaware that the friendly Santa is an escaped prisoner named Bruno. Movie in Latvian.

1h 57min

Release Date: 17.11.2022

Upurga

Andrejs, a meticulous outdoor adventure guide, takes a film crew to a wild river valley for a vegetarian sausage commercial shoot. The enterprise suffers an unexpected setback as the crew goes missing. Forced to find them, Andrejs has to go into the wild, following the traces left behind by the crew, while facing mysterious forces and inner demons in order to bring them back to safety. Little does he know that in the autumn the valley unleashes a strange, wondrous phenomenon whose reckless power does not spare even the locals.

1h 31min

Release Date: 03.10.2022

Emily. Queen of Press | E05-06

Emīlija. Latvijas preses karaliene | E05-06

The life story of publisher Emīlija Benjamiņa, the richest woman in the history of Latvia, from 1924, when she and her husband Antons Benjamiņš decided to launch the Atpūta illustrated weekly that went on to become one of the most popular lifestyle magazines in Latvia. The story of an independent, modern and powerful woman who won her place in the 1930s media and social elite, of betrayal and her tragic death in 1941 that was allegedly foretold by the popular clairvoyant Finks in his prophesy. Episodes 5 and 6. Movie in Latvian.

1h 47min

Release Date: 22.10.2021

Emily. Queen of Press | E03-04

Emīlija. Latvijas preses karaliene | E03-04

The life story of publisher Emīlija Benjamiņa, the richest woman in the history of Latvia, from 1924, when she and her husband Antons Benjamiņš decided to launch the Atpūta illustrated weekly that went on to become one of the most popular lifestyle magazines in Latvia. The story of an independent, modern and powerful woman who won her place in the 1930s media and social elite, of betrayal and her tragic death in 1941 that was allegedly foretold by the popular clairvoyant Finks in his prophesy. Episodes 3 and 4. Movie in Latvian.

1h 35min

Release Date: 08.10.2021

Emily. Queen of Press | E01-02

Emīlija. Latvijas preses karaliene | E01-02

The life story of publisher Emīlija Benjamiņa, the richest woman in the history of Latvia, from 1924, when she and her husband Antons Benjamiņš decided to launch the Atpūta illustrated weekly that went on to become one of the most popular lifestyle magazines in Latvia. The story of an independent, modern and powerful woman who won her place in the 1930s media and social elite, of betrayal and her tragic death in 1941 that was allegedly foretold by the popular clairvoyant Finks in his prophesy. Episodes 1 and 2. Movie in Latvian.

1h 47min

Release Date: 01.10.2021

Seven Awkward Sex Scenes. Part One

Septiņas neveikla seksa reizes. Pirmā daļa

The film will be demonstrated within film festival "Spektrs VI": http://www.forumcinemas.lv/Events/Spektrs/. A young film director attempts to make a feature film based on her autobiographical sexual experiences. Movie in Latvian.

0h 26min

Release Date: 13.11.2016

Riga-2041 and other fantastic stories

RĪGA-2041

RIGA-2041 is a combination of several stories depicting the pursuit of happiness. The story takes place in Riga – city overwhelmed by the cult of happiness. It abounds in commercials of different inventions and technologies claiming to solve any problem. Protagonists change their looks for good; real humans are replaced by projections; “happiness doctor” is a sought-after profession. The viewer can decide for himself, whether happiness can be found in technological solutions, or are we still responsible for our own happiness.

1h 8min

Release Date: 23.01.2015