Uģis Olte

Stikine ledus slazdā

Uģis Olte

Five men from Latvia - two bussinessmen, an experienced traveller, a cameraman, and their tour guide - head out to tame the fastest flowing river in North America - Stikine. But unexpected winter sets in, placing them in a situaltion that could cost them their lives. Despite locals’ advice, men decide to press on, leading them to dramatic events, that were not supposed to happen.

Dubultie svešinieki

Uģis Olte

The Samtskhe-Javakheti region in southern Georgia, which has a mostly Armenian population, suffers under silent ethnic tensions caused by a historical burden. It is a unique place to study the role of the human factor in ethnic conflicts through the eyes of a Georgian photographer and the ears of a Latvian film director.

Liberation Day

Morten Traavik, Uģis Olte

Boris Benko, Tomaž Cubej

Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea.

Sarkanais pleķis

Uģis Olte

Rihards Lapsa, Inga Misāne

Pēteris doesn’t get a chance to go pee before the start of the closing race of the semester’s swimming lessons, but he lacks the courage to back out of such a pressure-filled situation. It gets even worse when Pēteris learns that a red spot appears when pool water comes in contact with urine. In facing such a hardship, the boy must become a man.

KK2678

Uģis Olte

Mārcis Lācis

He lives and works in a world that contains only him, or so he thinks. Each day is spent exactly in the same way, stamping boxes, not asking where they come from or where they go. But an unexpected guest’s sudden arrival leads to a dangerous discovery – perhaps outside of his small world there is something more?

Planēta Dzintars

Uģis Olte

When the world was younger, ships, explorers and merchants carried not only foreign goods, but also stories. Those stories drew a map of the world and taught people that there are broader horizons beyond their own fences. Baltic amber has always been valued as the Gold of the North, so two young Latvians set out on the ancient amber trade route from the Baltic coast to the south of India to learn how this Stone of the Sun has changed the world we live in.

2018

Inese Kļava, Ivars Zviedris

During Latvia’s centennial year, 15 filmmakers created each his own film portrait of a person living in Latvia on the background of centenary events. Documentary 2018 combines these stories into a unique poetic vision based on analogy with the documentary 235 000 000, a classic of the Riga school of poetic documentary cinema. This film is an attempt to make sure whether the codes of the poetic cinema are still relevant and accessible today.