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Riga IFF: Bergman Island

BERGMAN ISLAND follows a couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the island operates on Chris and souvenirs of her first love resurface. Lines between reality and fiction will then progressively blur and tear our couple even more apart. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian.

1h 52min

Release Date: 10.03.2022

Blackbird

A terminally ill mother arranges to bring her family together one last time before she dies. A remake of the 2014 Danish film 'Silent Heart'. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.

1h 37min

Release Date: 02.10.2020

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland but this time through a Looking Glass to find The Mad Hatter in a horrible state, with that she must save her friends from Time, a creature part-clock, and borrow the Chronosphere, which The Red Queen wants also, and change the course of Underland's fate to save The Hatter. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian. Available in 3D and 2D.

1h 53min

Release Date: 03.06.2016

Crimson Peak

When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes a supernatural mystery starring Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.

1h 58min

Release Date: 16.10.2015

Maps to the Stars

Welcome to Hollywood, the place where dreamers come to dream and where the number of stars for a square meter is greater than in the night sky. But people living here do not always resemble the movie characters they so eagerly portray on the screen. In the extravagant villas in Beverly Hills you may find people with a guilty conscious and shady past, like a famous psychotherapist and star adviser, or his aging client and pretentious actress, or even a young millionaire who got to the top too fast and is now suffering from the consequences.

1h 47min

Release Date: 19.12.2014

Maps to the Stars

Maps to the Stars (BP)

Welcome to Hollywood, the place where dreamers come to dream and where the number of stars for a square meter is greater than in the night sky. But people living here do not always resemble the movie characters they so eagerly portray on the screen. In the extravagant villas in Beverly Hills you may find people with a guilty conscious and shady past, like a famous psychotherapist and star adviser, or his aging client and pretentious actress, or even a young millionaire who got to the top too fast and is now suffering from the consequences.

1h 51min

Release Date: 13.09.2014

The Double

Director Richard Ayoade's film lays Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella out in a nowhere land of office bureaucracy. Jesse Eisenberg plays Simon James, a skivvying worker bee who's belittled by his colleagues and shunned by Hannah (Mia Wasikowska) the elfin girl who works the office's giant, clanking photocopier. Eisenberg also plays James Simon, Simon James' doppelgänger, who arrives unannounced, wins over the boss and immediately starts dating Hannah. No-one reacts to the duplication, because Simon is such a nobody. You don't know it's a copy if you haven't seen the original.

1h 33min

Release Date: 25.04.2014

Only Lovers Left Alive

After being around for centuries and now living in the modern age, vampire Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a rockstar who cannot grow accustomed to the new modern world with all of its new technology. While he lives in Detroit, his wife Eve (Tilda Swinton) lives in Tangier, flourishing in the new world. But when she senses Adam's depression with society, she gets on a plane and goes to see him. Shortly after Eve gets there, her little sister, Ava (Mia Wasikowska), shows up after 87 years and disrupts the couple's idyll reunion. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.

2h 3min

Release Date: 04.04.2014

Lawless

Acclaimed director John Hillcoat (THE ROAD, THE PROPOSITION) delivers a thrillingly vivid slice of American outlaw history in his epic gangster tale, LAWLESS. LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: three bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, the Bondurant brothers are the stuff of legend. The eldest, Howard (Jason Clarke), managed to survive the carnage of the Great War, but he returned home unmoored by what he had seen and done.

1h 56min

Release Date: 08.02.2013

Restless

The young Annabel and Enoch seem to have something in common, showing up at one funeral after another. It turns out that Annabel harbours a poignant secret and Enoch is followed by a ghost friend, a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, 2010) and Henry Hopper, son of the legendary actor and director, star in a quirky indie romance-drama ostensibly ticking all the right boxes of the traditional boy-meets-girl story, only lacking “they lived happily ever after” promise at the end.

1h 31min

Release Date: 18.09.2011

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

1h 55min

Release Date: 18.03.2011

The Kids Are All Right

"The Kids are All Right" is the story of two modern children, 18-year-old Joni and 15 year-old Laser. They are the children of Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules, a happily partnered lesbian couple. They each gave birth to their children using an anonymous sperm donor.

1h 46min

Release Date: 11.02.2011

Alice in Wonderland

From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure "Alice in Wonderland," a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and of course, the Mad Hatter. Alice embarks on a fantastical journey to find her true destiny and end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

1h 47min

Release Date: 05.03.2010