Movies

Tikhov, a lecturer, arrives from the city along a rain-washed road to a construction site. To beat the rain, he stops at a house where a young woman...

“Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left...

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct...

In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their...

The documentary is dedicated to the painful issues of the Holocaust and the Riga Ghetto.

In the 1966 the population of the Soviet Union was estimated at 235 million. A group of Latvian filmmakers traveled the length and breadth of the...

The main characters of the film have made choices, which change their lives forever. A young man Yigal Amir assassinates the Prime Minister of Israel...

A little girl wanders all alone in the morning, through a bustling city, looking for the white bells she noticed in the window of a florist's shop. ...

A psychological portrait of kolkhos chairman Edgar Kaulin, who saved many Latvian farmers from deportations by the Soviets in the period 1945-53, and...

Philosophic reportage about work of pathoanatomist. Documentary version of Rembrandt’s «Anatomy Lesson».

The film captures those sacred moments when a person converses with God, feels their connection to the universe, and their soul is open to the good,...

A portrait of the prominent Latvian painter Maija Tabaka, showcasing her work process and life of artists from that time.

The creation of Sergeij Eisenstein's wooden sculpture by Igor Vasiliers.

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his...

The film is about a rabbi who spends his days and nights at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

The story of love, trust, and compassion for one another.

An autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier...

The life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system. The "restricted area" is a penal colony and Borstal, a "work camp" for delinquent...