The experimental film festival “Process” – Kino – Kultūra + starts this week

The festival “Process” is dedicated to analog experimental cinema – the works in it belong to different streams of alternative, personal and avant-garde cinema and are created using and often experimenting with analog film. Shortly before the main events of the festival, 14-15. In August, it will be introduced by a creative workshop led by … Read more

VIDEO⟩ “Between 2 Tizlenes”: Jānis Krīvēns in an open conversation with the directors of the film “Tizlenes” – Cinema – Culture +

About the film: it’s 1999, the millennium celebrations are approaching. Three ninth-graders – Sarmīte, Sveta and Katrīna have decided to change their lives and turn from the most ridiculous “teens” in the class into the school’s most popular girls. Inspired by Hollywood movies and TV series, the girlfriends decide that the only way out is … Read more

The premiere of Daniil Silov’s debut feature film The So-called Love. Red ”- Cinema – Culture +

The films “So-called love. Well-known actors from both Russia and Latvia took part in the filming: Sarkanais: Andrejs Mironovs-Udalovs, who is the grandson of the famous Russian actor Andrejs Mironovs, Anna Glaube – Russian theater and film actress, as well as domestic theater and film actor Maksims Busels, who has been recognized as the best … Read more

Latvian co-productions receive support from the international fund “Eurimages” – Cinema – Culture +

In this session, “Eurimages” has supported the production of 40 feature films, 6 documentaries and 3 animated films, allocating a total of 10,816,000 euros to the projects, and a total of 505,000 euros has been allocated to Latvian-related films. – One of the projects supported by the fund is the Estonian director Rainer Sarnet’s feature … Read more

Before the festival, LTV offers jokes in Latgalian style, the last film by director Okonov – TV & Radio – Culture +

The members of the Baltinava amateur theater troupe “Palada” work in carpentry, school, cultivate the land on a daily basis, but theater is their second life, maybe real? The film will provide an opportunity to watch a playful and provocative behind-the-scenes life, which at the same time characterizes life in Latgale and the Latvian border. … Read more

“Lielais Kristaps 2021” invites to apply for films – Cinema – Culture +

On the website suuriskristaps.lv you can get acquainted with the Prize Regulations and fill in the application form. – The events of the National Film Prize will take place this year from 12 to 15 November, both in the digital environment and in person, if the epidemiological situation in the country allows it. Already now, … Read more

Latvian films at April European festivals – Cinema – Culture +

From April 14, the online film industry event Meeting Point Vilnius 2021 (MPV) will take place, following the Lithuanian festival “Kino pavasaris” and focusing on upcoming film projects; It is structured in four sections, and Latvian film projects and their authors also participate in three of them. – MPV’s central program is “Coming Soon”, for … Read more

Focus on genre diversity: top seven short films by young film students – Cinema – Culture +

By supporting the making of new films and sixteen young film professionals, film friends and enthusiasts are invited to support the film-making process by donating the project “Seven Genre Short Films” to the LKA collective investment platform “Projektu banka” until April 24. – The aim of the project is to raise 3,000 euros, which will … Read more

JRT series “Agency” purchased in advance almost 3000 times – TV & Radio – Culture +

It has already been reported that the multi-series feature film premiered on November 27 on the internet platform “agentura.jrt.lv”. Currently, the film is available only in Latvian, but it is planned that it will also be shown in Russian by the end of the year. – Speaking about the total income from pre-sales, Liepiņa pointed … Read more

Top new film about the First General Latvian Singing Festival – Cinema – Culture +

In the film “Land that Sings”, the opera diva will play Zelma, the eldest sister of a wealthy Vidzeme owner, who plays an important role in the historical plot of the film – at the time of the first Latvian singing festival. Along with the national awakening started by the young Latvians, the struggle of … Read more