Gints Bērziņš Movies

Years after she related to him the story of her parents’ death in a fire, for which – rightly or wrongly – she feels responsible,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

The camera stands in a house, the lens pointing through the window, outdoors, where the occupants of the home are standing. They respond patiently to...

Genre: Documentary

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An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the...

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Cast: Pēteris Liepiņš

A film about the outstanding Latvian film director Juris Podnieks, who during his lifetime gained the fame of a fighter for justice and an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Juris Podnieks

A mentally ill young woman Valda convinces herself that a boy growing up in an orphanage is her child. Following the footsteps of a thousands...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valda Bičkutė

A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabine Timoteo

“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaori Momoi

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as...

Genre: Documentary

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A CrossFit trainer becomes the father of a baby girl, Snow White. Snow White’s mother dies, and her father marries a young...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Elza Leimane

A man in a grey coat roams the city. He is interested in boys and men. Those good enough for him will get a green bag. Marija is home alone. She is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonīds Grabovskis

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dāvis Suharevskis

The First Bridge is a film about frontiers, barriers, the ways to cross over and see what goes on, on the other side. But it also a film about time,...

Genre: Documentary

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A creative a portrait of Latvian luger and Olympic medal winner, Martins Rubenis, who won the first Latvia's Winter Olympic medal of the games in...

Genre: Documentary

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A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Uldis Dumpis

Latgale is a land on the very eastern edge of the European Union. Sometimes it seems like a land in the middle of a body of water. At other times, it...

Genre: Documentary

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A story about a city built as a paradise but turned into hell – a city slowly turning into paradise again, just in a different way. Igor has...

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17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria's mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her daughter's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kristīne Krūze

In the near future of 2012, the government asks for each citizen to have 30 Lats on their credit card. Anybody not having this amount of money is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Rūdolfs Plēpis

Four directors capture simple, yet quintessential experiences of a single individual in different periods of his life - childhood, adolescence,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Igors Suhoverhovs

A subdued observation of daily life in a children's hospital. The driver of a delivery van regularly delivers clean linen to the wards where small,...

Genre: Documentary

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The morning begins when the mail is delivered - this has been a tradition for almost an eternity. This film looks at daily things, daily movements,...

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The ferry crosses the river, transporting people from one shore to the other, from one country to another. It runs year round, never stopping. The...

Genre: Documentary

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The oak tree in Seja is roughly 700 years old. Around this monumental tree, the peaceful and repetitive life goes on in the village, a group of...

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The late 1950s. Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ivars Brakovskis

An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juris Grave

There should be silence in a museum. And someone should see to it that the silence is there. It's the logical order of things. However, it might seem...

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Cast: Mirdza Ševele

A film about a plastic spoon and a society that has reached a high level of development – oil is being retrieved from subterranean depths,...

Genre: Documentary

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Maria decides to go for a swim in the pool even though it looks deserted and she’s warned that the water is cold. When she gets into the pool...

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Cast: Emīls Elnionis

It is what it is. One needs a reason to get a passer-by to stop in their tracks and stand in front of the camera for a while. In this case the reason...

Genre: Documentary

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Even before Marija was born it was clear that she would be a person getting in trouble all the time. However, that’s not all. The most...

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Cast: Una Adamoviča

Adam’s first wife Lilith is mentioned in the ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aleksey Serebryakov

One week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The day of changes comes when Amaya meets a charming Englishman, Paul and it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Erik lives by night. He works in a nightclub and occasionally dresses up as a woman to rob rich clients. One day Erik's father arrives uninvited....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armands Reinfelds

Summer, 1989. City girls, Paula and Laura, spend their summer holidays in a small town with their cousins, Maija and Linda. Four girls, left...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magda Lote Auziņa

An emotional and stylistically consistent documentary musical depicting the staging of Bernstein’s West Side Story with deaf youths. The...

Genre: Documentary

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Viesturs Kairišs’ 2004 documentary The Monument investigates the interpretation of Riga’s Soviet Second World War memorial in the...

Genre: Documentary

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Cast: Marta Belova

The Latvian director’s graduation film from Moscow Film School does not deliver images loyal to the regime but is a testimony to her...

Genre: Documentary

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