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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Lotus

    A fantasy about Latvia’s first female director. Filmmaking as visual witchcraft – 24 spells per second.
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  • Can’t Help Myself

    Unglamorous beach work in Riga is poignantly juxtaposed with the extravagant promises of self-help gurus.
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  • In My Pocket

    A cornucopia of stories-in-songs for children, based on poems by famous (Soviet) Latvian literato Ojārs Vācietis.
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  • The Golden Sieve

    Three stories-in-songs for children about the heavens above. A milestone in (Soviet) Latvian animation!
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  • Bear of Happiness

    When a village is in danger, the inhabitants set out to find the Bear of Happiness.
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  • The Year Before the War

    Europe in 1913, seen through the prisms of ideological extremism, dangerous sex, existential doubt and psychoanalysis.
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  • Vogelfrei

    A fresh breeze from Latvia. A generation film made up of four novellas, made by four novice directors. The different stages of life of a…
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  • Maritime Climates

    The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates may well have been a triumph of smart political satire. These remnants testify to its indomitable
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  • Apple in the River

    When the termination of the film Maritime Climates created a quota problem for Rīgas Kinostudijā, a shelved documentary instead became the loveliest o
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  • Battles

    Can a film be clinical and informative and yet also dreamy and mysterious? Of course, and a lot more besides. That much is apparent from…
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