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- A comedy that follows a group of people immersed in Latvia's summer solstice celebration, the shortest night of the year.
- 1976. With a goal of emigrating to America, the Myshkins divorce and marry their respective Jewish neighbors, but get stranded in Vienna, Austria.
- Gunars Taurins has become a dad-sitter in Latvia. He wants to return to France as soon as possible once he has found a caregiver for his father. But it's not that easy and Gunars has to stay in Riga whether he likes it or not.
- A runaway bride, a young peasant, mysterious illusionists and a manic investigator become entwined in a murderous affair at a Baltic German baron's manor.
- The film tells the story of thirty-year-old Beatrise who has been floating down the stream all her life unable to make independent decisions and basing her life on relationships that one after another breaks down like sand castles.
- In this short film directed in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky, eternity and the downfall of the Soviet empire are explored in a deeply symbolic and poetic way. The film follows a protagonist as they traverse a desolate landscape, reflecting on the transient nature of life and the inevitability of death. Through a series of dreamlike sequences, the audience is presented with a powerful meditation on the idea of eternity, and how it can be seen in the rise and fall of empires. The film culminates in a powerful scene of the protagonist standing atop a hill, looking out at the ruins of the Soviet empire, and contemplating the eternal cycle of life and death.
- The Crossroad Street is a small street in the outskirts of Latvia's capital Riga, and its various inhabitants with their destinies, everyday routines and neighborly relations form the micro-model of society during the Awakening.
- An unemployed teacher accepts a strange job offer to house hunt for a wealthy Latvian.
- A cinematic portrait of the first Latvian foreign minister Zigfrids Anna Meierovics and the conception of the Latvian statehood.
- The second part of Ivars Seleckis' trilogy about Crossroad Street - an 800m-long street in the Pardaugava district of Riga, whose inhabitants, their relationships and fates, have served as a testament to changing times. The first film's action takes place at the end of the 1980s, when the fight for national independence begins in Latvia. Ten years have passed, and the filmmakers return to the small street in the outskirts of Riga. How have the lives of the characters we previously met changed since the regaining of Latvian independence? Land surveyors have passed through Crossroad Street - buildings have been denationalized, allotted, divided. Not only have the property rights of neighbours changed, but also relationships in several of the families.
- They are outcasts of the fate. Society knows very little or nothing about their existence. They have a common name - children with prolonged health problems. They are not to be found in hospitals, but at homes, whatever they are like. In most cases, for several years, the only contact with the society and the world outside for these children is a teacher, appointed by the local municipality, who visits and teaches them at home.
- The path of the main character to the tops of creative work is a chain of victories and losses, in which gains and irretrievable losses alternate.