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When a 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose anymore - why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?

Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.

Follows the talented Ansis as he negotiates a national dictatorship in his pursuit of an art career.

Would be film directors personal life difficulties are mixed with her possible movie cuts.

This extreme personal film tracks her family during Latvia's rapidly changing history. Grandmother Ina, 90, slowly loses her memory, but the questionable rituals of May 9 remain sacred to the proud World War II veteran.

A personal, animated documentary about the director's life growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era 1970-1990, where Sovjet used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the population.

Late 1940s. Mikhail Krasnitsky leads a quiet life near Rostov with his beloved wife Riva. When the firstborn of Michael and Riva dies, the hero takes it as a sign from above. Under the pretext of business trips, the hero begins to travel around the cities of the USSR, where, in cold blood, for an unclear reason, he commits murders. Investigator UGRO captain Smolov manages to connect cases of murders that occurred in different parts of the country.

Unpredictable and tragic life of the genius world chess champion Mikhail Tal

Is there a single place on Earth where Russian society and peace can co-exist?

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbas, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict's deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.

A young married housewife's dull routine is enlivened as she spies on the sexual escapades of her fencing instructor neighbour. She too is seduced by him, but fear of losing her family results in hysteria and an unpredictable climax.

The feature "What Nobody Can See" is a psychological drama with elements of science fiction. The story is based on the relationship of the nurse Elza with her patient Nicola who has fallen into deep coma after experimenting with creation of artificial intelligence. He has to go through a long and hard period of recovery, complicated by the artificial intellect "Anna", eager to keep Nicola just for herself.

The film depicts one day during which the lives of several people come together in one node.

It's 1999, the Millenium is approaching. Three ninth graders Sarmite, Sveta and Katrina are tired of being bullied and laughed at school. They decide to change their lives and become the most popular girls in school till the prom.

Two twenty-somethings from Latvia meet in the south of France. Leo studies restoration, Anna has lived in Marseille for some time and works as a hairdresser. Also, she looks very much like the image of a girl that Leo has uncovered restoring an altar painting.

Petr Pavlensky, artist and activist, is leading the way in forging social change in Russia. Through an multiple courageous performances, he acts as society's conscience in the face of an increasingly totalitarian state. From lying naked in a coil of barbed wire, to nailing his scrotum to the floor of Red Square, his acts of defiance aim to spark debate and catalyse reform. This documentary follows his mission to challenge the state.

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.

The film follows four Latvian women during different stages of pregnancy. They go through a mix of emotions, highlighting that pregnancy, contrary to mainstream representation, is not only about the child - it is about the mother, too.

An archive photo from 1940 forms the starting point for an exploratory journey along the border between Latvia and the USSR, or today between the European Union and Russia. Navigating from one side of this line to the other, two opposing visions of the world are revealed.

Igor (30) has been living in the Zone of Chernobyl for almost ten years. He wanted to find peace and a chance to escape from the modern civilization. Psychological issues, both personal and global, are still troubling him. He embodies both harmonizing peace and supernatural stress. And an existential secret. A secret of the essence of life.

This documentary deals with faith, human aging, a struggle to fulfill your vision and above all - one particular building. In its poetical minimalism the film observes the construction of the new Latvian National Library, which has become a metaphor for a temple, a boiling-point for an entire nation.

Poets, musicians and thinkers met at the "Kaza" cafe. What has changed in the meantime? Freedom and borders, today and the past.