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281 articles available in total starting from 27/09/2006. Last article published on 11/06/2025.

Review: Samuel’s Travels

Review: Samuel’s Travels

Aik Karapetian gifts us with a romantic comedy featuring a man chained up in a pigsty – it’s no Notting Hill 2, but we’ll take it  

29/04/2022 | HOFF 2022

Viesturs Kairišs’ latest effort, January, to premiere at Tribeca in June

Viesturs Kairišs’ latest effort, January, to premiere at Tribeca in June

The new coming-of-age film follows a 19-year-old cinematographer and his friends, who are dragged into the political events unfolding in the early post-Soviet years  

28/04/2022 | Production | Funding | Latvia/Lithuania/Poland

Signe Baumane’s sophomore feature, My Love Affair With Marriage, set to premiere at Tribeca

Signe Baumane’s sophomore feature, My Love Affair With Marriage, set to premiere at Tribeca

The animated film, an international co-production backed by the National Film Centre of Latvia and Film Fund Luxembourg, is a story about the acceptance of the “inner-female rebellion”  

26/04/2022 | Production | Funding | Latvia/USA/Luxembourg

Nils Gaup’s historical action drama The Riot enters production in northern Norway

Nils Gaup’s historical action drama The Riot enters production in northern Norway

The new film will explore the origins of the labour movement and workers’ rights in the mining city of Sulitjelma in the early 20th century  

08/04/2022 | Production | Funding | Norway/Sweden/Latvia

Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow and Edmunds Jansons’ Born Happy form the Latvian contingent at this year’s Cartoon Movie

Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow and Edmunds Jansons’ Born Happy form the Latvian contingent at this year’s Cartoon Movie

The two features, both in the development phase and backed by the National Film Centre of Latvia, were pitched at the three-day gathering that took place in Bordeaux  

16/03/2022 | Cartoon 2022 | Cartoon Movie

Dominiks Jarmakovičs • Producer, Studio Locomotive

Interview: Dominiks Jarmakovičs • Producer, Studio Locomotive

“The duty of a documentary filmmaker is to be objective and creative at the same time”

The Emerging Producer 2022 from Latvia discusses his approach to documentary filmmaking, a career he’s just begun, after having focused on fiction film  

11/03/2022 | Emerging Producers 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Tomas Vengris’s new film 5 & 1⁄2 Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania in production

EXCLUSIVE: Tomas Vengris’s new film 5 & 1⁄2 Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania in production

A co-production between Lithuania, Ireland and Latvia, the director’s sophomore feature has been described as “a collection of stories revealing the elusive but real beauty in ordinary life”  

01/03/2022 | Production | Funding | Lithuania/Ireland/Latvia

Signe Birkova’s first fiction feature, Lotus, now in production

Signe Birkova’s first fiction feature, Lotus, now in production

The Latvian-Lithuanian co-production will centre on German-Baltic Countess Alice Von Trotta, who became an avant-garde filmmaker in Latvian silent cinema  

20/01/2022 | Production | Funding | Latvia/Lithuania

The National Film Centre of Latvia celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special jubilee selection of titles

The National Film Centre of Latvia celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special jubilee selection of titles

The movies, available on the body’s dedicated portal filmas.lv, were selected by a team of 30 experts and span three decades of Latvian cinema  

21/12/2021 | Promotion | Latvia

Wojciech Smarzowski • Director of The Wedding Day

Interview: Wojciech Smarzowski • Director of The Wedding Day

“Sweeping the truth about past crimes under the rug can easily lead to new crimes”

We chatted to the Polish director about his new film and his tendency to tackle difficult events from his country’s history  

26/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Competition

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