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- A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.
- When a 14-year-old boy falls in love with his classmate, he befriends rebellious teenagers who change his view of the world.
- Farewell Comrades paints a portrait of the Soviet Union's decline from the inside, covering the period from 1975 to 1991.
- Rudolf is a 13 year-old boy who is obsessed with film making. As a matter of fact, it is the only thing he is really fond of. Especially, he is carried away by the horror movies which he is drawing himself on long strips of paper and then demonstrating them on a wall, using an old slide projector. Rudolf does sound himself live, making unbelievable sound imitations. His films are like mini blockbusters with a strong Hollywood touch. The film shows the conflict between the imaginary world of the boy and the society surrounding him, where everybody tries to make him live according to certain rules and dogmas, but the outcome of the movie is very positive. As the family allows Rudolf to demonstrate his creativity fully, it causes a wide spectrum of emotions - from real fear to real fun.
- In 1986 Juris Podnieks, the outstanding Latvian filmmaker, made "Is It Easy To Be Young?", where he held conversations "on equal ground" with young people who had taken their first independent steps in life. The problems they confronted were of a new nature for Soviet society then. The aim of this film after 20 years is to discover what happened to this rebellious generation. Through their stories we see life in Latvia after 20 years of independence. How have their lives, thoughts and attitudes changed? What do they think of life today?
- Vija Celmins is a Latvian born artist, who immigrated to the United States with her family when she was ten years old. Armed with a nuanced palette of blacks and grays, Celmins renders limitless space-seascapes, night skies, and the barren desert floor-with an uncanny accuracy, working for months on a single image. Celmins has a highly attuned sense for organic detail and the elegance of imperfection. Vija Celmins received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 1996 and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. Retrospectives of her work have traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 2002, a retrospective of Celmins' prints was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Celmins currently resides in New York. This documentary for the first time will unfold her process of creation as well as her unique personality. Filmmakers visited her in New York and Long Island and had an exclusive chance to observe her in her studio and witness her prominent status in NYC art scene. This film along with the retrospective of Vija Celmin's work at the National Art gallery "Arsenals" (Riga, Latvia) will be a part of Riga- European Capital of Culture- program.
- The film tells the story of Guntar's life in the Cesis correctional institution for minors. He is a very talented guy who sings and plays the guitar well. Various failures and mistakes have led him to this institution. He will soon be 18, which means he will be in adult prison. Due to various tensions and deterioration of internal relations, Guntars has been in solitary confinement for six months. We have followed his life in the institution while making this film... and we will reveal to the audience things that the public has not suspected and thought about until now.
- The film is a story about people who offer different alternative ways of getting well which come from their personal experiences. Their life stories prove the efficiency of the methods they propose. The obvious results are excellent proof for the non believers of their healing methods, but the optimism, love of life and wisdom they possess, allow us to see that they are absolutely happy people. Seven stories, showing their main characters in their activities and environment, tied together in a spectacular film will show other ways of dealing with health problems and attitude towards life and human body as such.
- Disaffected Latvian youths interviewed in Juris Podnieks' 1987 film 'Is It Easy To Be Young?' about their life under Communist rule are re-interviewed by Podnieks' former film crew thirteen years later about their life in a newly-independent Latvia.
- An ordinary day turns into an adventure and becomes and extraordinary day.