
Aigars Vilims
2021Pirmie soļi
Pauls Ķesteris
Elīna Gediņa, Mārtiņš Meiers
After their family house burns down, a young woman finds her brother in a state of excruciating guilt. She tries to come to terms with things, whereas he still lives under the authoritative shadow of their father. Without uttering a word, the two share this burden and seek a new path that will lead them away from the past.
First Steps
Naktsmaiņa
Jānis Jozauskis
Dace Eversa, Aigars Vilims
Imants is a security guard at a small town store. He is always nice, honest and truthful and would not let anything happen to the store and to the people that are working there, until one night when his honesty and truthfulness are set to a test. He has been given a choice – stay and be dishonest with himself or leave and open has hart to love. The choice seems easy, but it takes some courage to step out of a place where you have been for ages.
Night Shift
Bedre
Dace Pūce
Aigars Vilims, Damirs Onackis
Markuss must adapt to a new life living with his granny in the countryside. After Emīlija – a neighbor’s daughter – throws some contemptuous remarks about the boy’s father, Markuss decides to teach her a cruel lesson. This has severely negative consequences which resonate throughout the village. Forced to work the boy begins to harbor hatred towards the others in the village. The only person the boy can relate to is an old Sailor living in the nearby woods. They inspire one another and keep each other’s secrets. It is only through an accidental turn of events that Emīlija’s mother’s intended sanctions against Markuss and the boy’s reputation in the eyes of the inhabitants of the village radically change.
The Pit
Pitons
Laila Pakalnina
Juris Grave, Intars Janbergs
An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught. When the photographer's pet python escapes, havok breaks loose.
The Python
Agrā rūsa
Gunārs Cilinskis
Rimante Krilavičute, Oļģerts Dunkers
Poor countryside girl Elza has been unsuccessfully looking for a job in Riga before she gets help from an acquantance. After that, fortune seems to turn and rich aged factory owner Ķikulis wants to marry Elza. Reluctant at first, she finally agrees but the marriage doesn't got smoothly.
Early Rust
Sema ceļojumi
Aik Karapetian
Kevin Janssens, Laura Siliņa
Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and makes him a forced laborer on the farm.
Squeal
Bailes
Gunārs Cilinskis
Eduards Pavuls, Zane Jančevska
Великая Отечественная война. Карлис, сын латышского крестьянина Петертале, перешел на сторону врага. А когда дочь Алда укрыла в овине раненого советского парашютиста, отец был доволен: вернется Красная Армия - будет чем оправдаться. Когда на хутор вернулся Карлис, немцы устроили облаву. В припадке страха Петертале с сыном, убив юношу, замуровывают труп в печь. Алда теряет разум, а над домом крестьянина витает угроза разоблачения. После войны проходит десять лет страха - и, наконец, наступает час возмездия...
Fear