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Country profile: Latvia

Country profile: Latvia

29 August 2023

The Series Mania Institute launches Serial Bridges Baltics at Tallinn Black Nights

Black Nights 2025 - Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

The Series Mania Institute launches Serial Bridges Baltics at Tallinn Black Nights

The new training programme for screenwriters and producers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will host shows by talent such as Juris Kursietis, Raoul Suvi and Gabija Siurbytė  

29 October 2025

The 29th Baltic Sea Docs announces its winners

Baltic Sea Docs 2025 – Awards

The 29th Baltic Sea Docs announces its winners

Eight awards have been handed out at the Riga-based forum, which brought together filmmakers from the Baltic Sea region, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus  

10 September 2025

Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities

Venice 2025 – Venice Production Bridge

Venice hosts a panel exploring Baltic-Italian co-production opportunities

VENICE 2025: The event was aimed at familiarising Italian producers with the financial and creative advantages of partnering with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania  

01 September 2025

Sarajevo offers a glimpse into the technicalities of Flow

Sarajevo 2025 – CineLink Industry Days

Sarajevo offers a glimpse into the technicalities of Flow

Animators Konstantīns Višņevskis and Mārtiņš Upītis shared their experience of working on the highly successful, Oscar-winning feature by Gints Zilbalodis  

26 August 2025

The 29th Baltic Sea Docs announces its selection

Baltic Sea Docs 2025

The 29th Baltic Sea Docs announces its selection

A total of 26 projects will be featured at the upcoming edition of the leading Baltic event, which will run in Riga from 31 August-5 September  

11 June 2025

Latvia set to shine bright at Cannes, led by Sergei Loznitsa’s competition entry Two Prosecutors

Cannes 2025/Sponsored

Latvia set to shine bright at Cannes, led by Sergei Loznitsa’s competition entry Two Prosecutors

New projects and a delegation of professionals specialising in fiction, documentary and animation are poised to visit the Croisette later this month  

02 May 2025

Applications are open for the 29th Baltic Sea Docs

Baltic Sea Docs 2025

Applications are open for the 29th Baltic Sea Docs

Documentary filmmakers can now submit their projects for the leading Baltic region event, offering key networking and co-production opportunities in Riga this August  

26 March 2025

What will the next Latvian animation hit be after Flow?

Cartoon 2025 – Cartoon Movie/Sponsored

What will the next Latvian animation hit be after Flow?

The Baltic country’s animation sector has much more to offer, and Cartoon Movie’s Spotlight aims to prove this by showcasing three intriguing new projects by Latvian animators  

27 February 2025

Latvia heads to the Berlinale promoting Vitaly Mansky’s Time to the Target and Shooting Star Kārlis Arnolds Avots

Berlinale 2025

Latvia heads to the Berlinale promoting Vitaly Mansky’s Time to the Target and Shooting Star Kārlis Arnolds Avots

The seasoned filmmaker’s documentary, playing in the Forum sidebar, delves into the unseen impact of war on daily life in Lviv, Ukraine  

07 February 2025

Baltic-Italian collaboration shines at WEMW and the Trieste Film Festival

Trieste 2025 – WEMW

Baltic-Italian collaboration shines at WEMW and the Trieste Film Festival

The co-production forum held annually in Trieste shines a spotlight on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania while also celebrating their growing collaboration with Italy  

13 January 2025

REPORT: Baltic Event Works in Progress 2024

Black Nights 2024 – Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

REPORT: Baltic Event Works in Progress 2024

We focus on the four projects from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that were featured in the 22nd edition of the showcase unspooling alongside Tallinn Black Nights  

26 November 2024

At Tallinn, panellists unpack the development and financing of the series Von Fock

Black Nights 2024 – Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

At Tallinn, panellists unpack the development and financing of the series Von Fock

Led by former TV Beats head honcho Jevgeni Supin, the joint Estonian-Latvian-German-Italian project has become one of Estonia’s biggest to date  

20 November 2024

The 28th Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries announces its winners

Baltic Sea Docs 2024 – Awards

The 28th Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries announces its winners

A handful of awards have been given out at the Riga-based event to projects hailing from Kazakhstan, Georgia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Belarus and Lithuania  

10 September 2024

Is Central and Eastern European cinema following in the Nordics' footsteps?

Karlovy Vary 2024 - KVIFF Eastern Promises

Is Central and Eastern European cinema following in the Nordics' footsteps?

The region's untapped potential and growth need to be exploited to the fullest but controlled in order to avoid past mistakes, warns European Producers Club managing director Alexandra Lebret  

03 July 2024

The 28th Baltic Sea Docs announces its selection

Baltic Sea Docs 2024

The 28th Baltic Sea Docs announces its selection

A total of 26 projects will be featured at the upcoming edition of the leading Baltic event, which will run in Riga from 1-6 September  

19 June 2024

Latvia boasts a powerful presence at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Cannes 2024

Latvia boasts a powerful presence at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The French gathering is welcoming a sizeable contingent of Latvian professionals engaged in various industry activities, with Gints Zilbalodis’ animated feature Flow screening in Un Certain Regard  

15 May 2024

Álvaro Carmona, Greg Davies and Teodora Markova discuss going “beyond the punchline” to capture international audiences

Berlinale 2024 – EFM

Álvaro Carmona, Greg Davies and Teodora Markova discuss going “beyond the punchline” to capture international audiences

BERLINALE 2024: The Berlinale Series Market panel discussion focused on the shows The Cleaner, Show Yourself and Soviet Jeans  

23 February 2024

The 27th Baltic Sea Docs announces its winners

Baltic Sea Docs 2023 – Awards

The 27th Baltic Sea Docs announces its winners

A handful of awards have been given out at the event that ran in Riga from 3-8 September  

11 September 2023

The 27th Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries is ready to get under way

Baltic Sea Docs 2023

The 27th Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries is ready to get under way

A jam-packed programme of industry events, talks and film screenings is in store at the major documentary gathering, which will run from 3-10 September in Latvia  

30 August 2023

Baltic Sea Docs announces its selection

Baltic Sea Docs 2023

Baltic Sea Docs announces its selection

A total of 24 documentary film projects at various stages of production will be presented at the leading event in the Baltic Sea region  

24 July 2023

Ten Latvian producers are heading to the Croisette with a raft of new projects

Cannes 2023

Ten Latvian producers are heading to the Croisette with a raft of new projects

Linda Krūkle and Inga Praņevska will take part in the Marché du Film’s Producers Network, whilst Dominiks Jarmakovičs will participate in this year’s Producers on the Move representing Latvia  

11 May 2023

The Latvian film industry sets sail for the European Film Market

Berlinale 2023 – EFM

The Latvian film industry sets sail for the European Film Market

A raft of new projects in the pipeline, two titles screening in the sidebars and the Series Market panel are some of the highlights of Latvia’s participation in the event  

07 February 2023

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