Dzimuši Sibīrijā. Mārtiņš Vilsons

Near the end of the Second World War, when it became clear that Latvia would be re-invaded by the Soviet Army, some 150,000 of its citizens fled to Germany as refugees. Among them were farmers, businessmen, government officials, intellectuals and ordinary folks who had already experienced the dreadful Year of Terror. Almost one million people from Eastern Europe sought escape from the Soviet regime. The Latvians, who became DPs (displaced persons), tried to create a “little Latvia” within the confines of the refugee camps. This film follows the fates of their children.

Dieva putnini

Andris Caune, Ojārs Grensbergs, Imants Grāvītis and Jānis Zemtautis spent many years in the Gulag camps.  They survived.  In 1954, a riot broke out in Jezkazan, Kazakhstan.  The men’s camp and women’s camp joined together and held on for 40 days.  Then came the tanks that killed more than 1,000 of them.  Austra Vērpe met her future husband there.  They were lucky to stay alive.  The dream of the musician Zigfrīds Muktupāvels was to find the grave of his paternal uncle in far-off Kazakhstan.  He was named after his uncle, who never came home.  Zigfrīds and a cousin headed off into the steppes to look for a monument reading “Zigfrīds Muktupāvels.”  The next round of deportations occurred in 1949, and whole families were sent to Siberia.  Fathers were tried in court, a great many ended up in punitive camps in Vorkuta and Inta.  Skaidrīte Jostmane and Māris Landers travelled to Vorkuta to find their father’s gravesite.

The Fathers Over There

The story of the world-renowned Liepāja-born cinematographer Eduard Tisse, whose wife was convinced it was he who created all the famous films of Sergei Eisenstein. The creators of the film develop the story and cross the lines drawn by biography, trying to understand the magic interaction between a cinematographer and a director, between the cinematographer and the object in front of his camera.

Seeking Tisse

Story about the life and work of Latvian artist and communist dissident Kurts Fridrihsons.

Kurts Fridrihsons

Katra diena simtgadē. Gadalaiki.

The story of the secret of self-creativity, the loneliness of the soul, the meridians of con-sciousness and the scope of man. Ilmārs Blumbergs (1943-2016) is a concept in life than can be classically proven if we analyze his work in set design, poster art, painting and multimedia work. The personality of Blumbergs, however is a shifting and intangible material which ensures superior value, wonderfulness and intimacy to all that he created. Those who analyze his art and world perceptions, recognize the work as seeming to come from antiquity, but it can never be catalogued or recorded in bookkeeping. How fortunate that it also cannot be consumed.

Ilmārs Blumbergs

The Distant Land of Siberia. Why March 25, 1949?

On June 14, 1941, 15,424 Latvians were deported from their country, including about 4,000 infants, children and adolescents. Many of the youngest died on the way, others died later from starvation, disease and over work in the Soviet camps. Some of the deported children survived and returned to Latvia, others remained in Siberia for their whole lives. Dzintra Geka's latest documentary "Road to Siberia, 1941" is an emotional account about those deportees who grew up in Siberia, far from their homeland.

Road to Siberia, 1941

In the documentary, director Dzintra Geka has created an engaging portrait of Latvian painter Juris Jurjāns. The film delves into his world, embodying a visually rich narrative of freedom in art, life energy, and virtuosity. As always, Juris Jurjāns chooses beauty as the leading theme of his artist and refuses to conform to the rules dictated by old age. He continues to indulge in fine drinks, puffs cigars, and paints. Every day he travels to his studio, where he finds solace in his canvases.