Films created in Latvia on the Internet portal will be available all over the world

Fans of films made in Latvia will be able to watch cinema outside Latvia on the portal filmas.lv – all over the world, reports TV3 news program “900 seconds”.

Until the respective portal filmas.lv, cinema viewing was available only in Latvian libraries, schools and limited availability was also available in the rest of the country. However, Latvian films restored in the future will be available in other countries, although only a part of the whole range of films.

One of the films that will be shown on the portal filmas.lv for free, in good quality in any corner of the world, is a film about Boņukis, or in the full title “Child in Man”. It is planned to place on the portal those films for which the updated version will be available and the quality and rights of which will allow them to be placed there.

Kristīne Matīsa, a representative of the National Film Center, points out that restored, digitized films are being made available all over the world. In her view, it is clear from the momentum of the restoration process that the films in question must be made available to the public. This is one of the conditions that should not be restored and put back on the shelf.

Kristīne Matīsa, representative of the National Film Center

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“The section of restored films has naturally been created on the portal filmas.lv. Latvian cinema classics are deliberately presented for worldwide accessibility. Also for film specialists, because we also use this opportunity as film specialists. ”

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Currently, 13 feature films and three documentaries and three animated films are available worldwide on the filmas.lv website. It’s not much, but there will be more. Only works that are digitized and of high quality are made available worldwide.

The oldest digitized and globally available film of the last century is “Lāčplēsis” of the last century, while fragments from the latest restored film can be seen at the beginning of the “900 seconds” plot. The idea is to show both the beginnings of the history of Latvian cinema and Soviet-era feature films, which could probably occupy the largest amount of content on the portal. The youngest of them is Jānis Streičs’ “Human Child”.

The digitization of films will continue for the second year and in the future, by concluding the digitization of a work that meets the criteria of films published on filmas.lv, it will also be viewable outside Latvia.

The portal filmas.lv also provides information written by cinematographers about each film work, a list of filmmakers and also a description of the process of making the film – why the filmmaker has resorted to this type of work at all. In total, filmas.lv has more than 2,000 works and their own films are visible to the majority of Latvians. Now films are gradually becoming available outside Latvia as well.

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