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

Latvia’s Oscars bid January to be screened in the USA on 9 and 12 December

Latvia’s Oscars bid January to be screened in the USA on 9 and 12 December

After its triumphs at Tribeca, Rome and Warsaw, Viesturs Kairišs’ partly autobiographical tale hopes to make the final shortlist in the Best International Feature Film category  

05/12/2022 | Oscars 2023/Sponsored

Godland emerges victorious at the ninth Riga International Film Festival

Godland emerges victorious at the ninth Riga International Film Festival

Hlynur Pálmason’s feature has added another feather to its cap at the Latvian event, while My Love Affair with Marriage and Comedy Queen also got some love  

24/10/2022 | Riga 2022 | Awards

Review: Sisters

Review: Sisters

Latvian director Linda Olte's debut film is a sensitively written, linear social drama which sheds light on the reality of orphanages and international adoptions  

20/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

The Riga International Film Festival gets under way

The Riga International Film Festival gets under way

My Love Affair With Marriage opens the Latvian gathering, which promises a host of festival hits and new discoveries for audiences and industry alike  

13/10/2022 | Riga 2022

Baltic Sea Docs explores documentary filmmaking and mental health

Baltic Sea Docs explores documentary filmmaking and mental health

At the recent edition of the Latvian gathering, a panel examined the complex nature of the mental-health needs of documentarians through the prism of the war in Ukraine  

05/10/2022 | Baltic Sea Docs 2022

Latvia picks Viesturs Kairišs’s January as its Oscars bid

Latvia picks Viesturs Kairišs’s January as its Oscars bid

After it was crowned Best International Feature at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the National Film Centre of Latvia is pinning all its hopes on this Latvian-Lithuanian-Polish co-production  

28/09/2022 | Oscars 2023/Sponsored

Ole Christian Madsen’s crime-thriller Boundless in production

Ole Christian Madsen’s crime-thriller Boundless in production

The new Department Q film, which is being sold internationally by TrustNordisk, will star The Marco Effect’s Ulrich Thomsen  

22/09/2022 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Germany/Latvia

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Linda Olte’s first fiction feature Sisters

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Linda Olte’s first fiction feature Sisters

The Latvian director’s brave debut follows two sisters living in an orphanage in Latvia, and an American family looking to adopt them  

15/09/2022 | Latvia/Italy

The 26th edition of Baltic Sea Docs comes to a close

The 26th edition of Baltic Sea Docs comes to a close

Ukrainian and Finnish projects have received awards after the event returned to a mostly on-site format  

12/09/2022 | Baltic Sea Docs 2022 | Awards

Baltic Sea Docs gets under way

Baltic Sea Docs gets under way

Documentary makers and professionals from the Baltic Sea region are currently converging on the Latvian capital of Riga  

06/09/2022 | Baltic Sea Docs 2022

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