Some of the most iconic images in Latvian visual history were taken 30 years ago, when the so-called Singing Revolution took place. This documentary that includes well-known and previously unseen 35 mm footage, is about those who took these shots, told in their own voices, their own emotions and memories.
Life of a modern Roma community of about 100 people living in the small Latvian town of Sabile. In spite of the attempts of the government aimed at integrating Roma kids with the rest of the society, the community's life is still completely different from the life in the rest of the country.
The fates of the students involved in the Latvian educational system reforms and that of their teacher – the screenwriter and film director, Tālivaldis Margēvičs, are unusually intertwined. This leads to thoughts on various, current integration problems and on universal human values.
Using previously unpublished footage shot by amateurs in the era of 8 mm cameras, the film is about the simple human life of those who lived in the Soviet Latvia from 1940 until 1991, a time when a double-moral reigned in society.
A documentary about Jānis Bērziņš - a Soviet politician and military intelligence officer of Latvian ethnicity.
Uldis Brauns' conversation with Ivars Seleckis about films and time.
For the first time in the history of world cultural heritage preservation, a Latvian scientific expedition explores the ancient Karnaka temple in Egypt using the most up-to-date technique: three-dimensional laser scanning.
Latvian scientists – archaeologists, radar and photogrammetry specialists, architects, geologists, historians, computer programmers and others, banded together to create a unique technology for exploring archaeological sites, and made a sensational find in 2007. In the oldest stone building in the world – Egypt’s Pyramid of Djoser – the Latvian scientific expedition discovered new underground rooms and a network of galleries. This new information has forced a revaluation of previous assumptions about the role and function of pyramids.
A dynamic film about Riga and its inhabitants.
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