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288 articles available in total starting from 27/09/2006. Last article published on 16/07/2025.

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

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  

15/05/2024 | Cannes 2024

Oskars Rupenheits’ sophomore feature, Red Code Blue, about to wrap shooting

Oskars Rupenheits’ sophomore feature, Red Code Blue, about to wrap shooting

Similarly to his feature debut, in his upcoming crime-comedy, set in post-Soviet Latvia, the helmer also casts non-professional actors and promises an abundance of peculiar characters  

13/05/2024 | Production | Funding | Latvia

Gints Zilbalodis’s sophomore feature, Flow, set to world-premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard

Gints Zilbalodis’s sophomore feature, Flow, set to world-premiere in Cannes' Un Certain Regard

The new animated film follows a stubborn cat who is forced to share a small boat with a group of other animals after a terrible flood wreaks havoc on the world  

03/05/2024 | Production | Funding | Latvia/Belgium/France

Lauris and Raitis Ābele’s upcoming Dog of God to take part in Cannes’ Fantastic 7

Lauris and Raitis Ābele’s upcoming Dog of God to take part in Cannes’ Fantastic 7

The Latvian brothers’ experimental animated folktale depicts the most famous werewolf trial in Northern Europe  

29/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Latvia/USA

The National Film Centre of Latvia announces the recipients of its latest round of funding

The National Film Centre of Latvia announces the recipients of its latest round of funding

The body will back the making of 14 works, including new efforts by Linda Olte, Aik Karapetian and Juris Kursietis, through production grants worth a total of €1.8 million  

17/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Latvia

Series review: Soviet Jeans

Series review: Soviet Jeans

The series created by Stanislavs Tokalovs, Teodora Markova and Waldemar Kalinovskila veers from romance to jailbreak story in an occupied but aspirational Riga  

26/03/2024 | Series Mania 2024

Review: My Freedom

Review: My Freedom

A key figure in Latvia’s independence struggle contends with her era’s duplicity in Ilze Kunga-Melgaile’s smart debut historical drama  

26/03/2024 | Vilnius 2024

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

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  

23/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | EFM

Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s Silence

Interview: Dāvis Sīmanis • Director of Maria’s Silence

“We have to remember the catastrophes in history so that we don’t make the same mistakes again”

BERLINALE 2024: The Latvian director discusses his exploration of Soviet Russia and the fate of its Baltic citizens, particularly that of real-life actress Marija Leiko  

20/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

Review: Maria’s Silence

Review: Maria’s Silence

BERLINALE 2024: Dāvis Sīmanis’s film is rich in historical references and complex visual poeticism, yet it’s one of his most classical fictions to date  

19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Forum

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