Viesturs Kairišs

It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s ...

A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, ...

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and ...

17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria’s mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her ...

A tale about a nine-year old boy’s relationship with the world around him, shot in one of Latvia’s poorest and most beautiful regions ...

Wedding rituals and a love triangle.

An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of ...