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Riga IFF: Pacifiction

Riga IFF: Pacifiction - Tourment sur les îles

The French High Commissioner De Roller, has an unusual job – he has to keep the peace in the colonised territory of Haiti and be friendly with the locals without losing control. Dressed in a white suit, he wanders through nightclubs crowded with humid bodies and beaches drenched in reddish light, trying to reassure everyone that disaster is impossible. Meanwhile, a deadly secret hides in the depths of the ocean that turns the idyllic peacefulness into an uneasy calm before the storm. Movie in French with subtitles in Latvian and English.

2h 45min

Release Date: 08.12.2022

Rifkin's Festival

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards. Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.

1h 32min

Release Date: 08.10.2021

Potiche

POTICHE is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive, housebound 'trophy housewife' (or "potiche,") who steps in to manage her wealthy and tyrannical husband (Fabrice Lucchini)'s umbrella factory after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. Gérard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne's ex-beau who still holds a flame for her.

1h 43min

Release Date: 11.03.2011