Artūrs Skrastiņš

The film tells the story of an artist avoiding a confrontation with power and the artistic and personal consequences of this choice. A powerful historical drama on the true story of Maria Leiko, famous actress who late in her career has to decide between fame and love for her grandchild, between her ideals or the lies of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.

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 peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.

Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular composer in Latvia: his songs are sung all over the world. "Dāvāja Māriņa" is so popular in Japan that Paul received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. In concerts, he collaborates with world stars of Latvian origin - soprano Elīna Garanča, organist Iveta Apkalna, conductor Mariss Jansons. The Latvian Television film crew follows him during the pandemic, realizing that the restrictions and threats of Covid-19 hardly stop the Maestro in the course of his eternal engine. How does he cope with the challenges that time imposes on a person's physical form and the loneliness when most friends have passed away? What is the source of his inexhaustible lifestyle and creative spirit?

Павел Шелест был правильный мужик. Не любил крутых поворотов. Всегда старался поступать как положено. Но ему не повезло. 15 августа 1990 года на раскаленной трассе Слока-Талси в его автобус врезался «Москвич» Виктора Цоя. Кумир миллионов погиб на месте. Павел ничего не знал о Цое, не слушал его песен. Не знал он и того, что после этого рокового столкновения его жизнь больше никогда не будет прежней.

TUR [ There ] - drama about relationships in virtual an physical world - blending boundaries of both worlds.

То, что Жанис Липке станет героем, не мог представить никто. Днём он работал на складах люфтваффе, а по ночам перевозил контрабанду. Когда нацисты стали истреблять жителей Риги, он принял решение, которое могло оказаться роковым не только для него самого, но и для его жены и маленького сына. Буквально на глазах немецкой охраны он вывел из гетто более 50 человек. Убежище для спасенных Жанис оборудовал в своем собственном доме. Что было секретом самоотверженности Жаниса Липке — азарт, авантюризм, упрямство или просто способность в нечеловеческих условиях сохранять человечность?

A family film based on the book Bille by Vizma Belševica. An extraordinary, lonely yet spiritually strong little girl attempts to comprehend the adult world, which in her eyes is very contradictory, and to prove her own value despite the ignorance and lack of appreciation by her family in late 1930s. Bille tries to find an escape in her vivid imagination.

XIII век, эпоха крестовых походов. Папа Римский поручает своему бастарду Максу, известному своей жестокостью, отправиться на север и подчинить свободолюбивых земгалов, отверагющих христианство. Макс отравляет правителя земгалов в надежде, что наследником станет один из его ставленников, но тот на смертном одре отдаёт кольцо королей смекалистому и храброму простолюдину по имени Намей.

“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.

Двое случайных знакомых узнают о том, что их супруги являются любовниками. Это открытие заставляет их совершать поступки, на которые они не решились бы ранее.Ревность или страсть, месть или прощение — герои ищут основы для новой жизни, но сделать это нелегко — измена подчиняет все их поступки своей логике.

The dawn of the XX century promised Latvians a prosperous and happy future. The nation’s self-esteem had awakened, and farmers were increasingly able to rise above even the estate stewards. Rudups, old soldier of the Kaiser and, with his wealth and pride, a thorn in the Baron’s side, becomes truly uncontrollable when he’s hit by Cupid’s arrow. The old boy is willing to do anything for simple maid Emily. But the girl loves his godson Karlis. It’s all a mix of riches, of cheating, and the Baron’s lawlessness. The fight of two relatives for Emily’s heart changes the fate of both men and the maid, so she can see sunshine through the tears.

Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old and that bank has just thrown your parents out of a brand new apartment, because your father has lost his job. Five year old Robby is no Zorro, but he'd like to be. His seven year old sister Louise thinks he's too childish, but can't resist the game of robbing a bank. Together they can pull off just about anything. Getting away with it is the hard part.

The relationships between two people are never easy. Especially when complicated by their professions. We are used to think that profession or occupation puts a stamp or a mask on peoples' personality. He is a pastor, she is a prostitute. Everything's clear. But underneath he is a man, she is a woman. Simple and difficult in the same time. Short film "Scortum" tells the story of the mazy relationships between sin and happiness which can never be solved.

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.

The two sisters' parents have gone abroad to earn the living, so the girls Marta and Linda needs someone to take care of them. For that they have their dictatorial spinster aunt Una, who desperately wants to get married, and has a sympathy for the jeweler Ivo. Meanwhile, Marta is working hard to get a promised puppy, but her plans are ruined, as her aunt feels a strong despise for dogs. So, the relations between the girls and their aunt becomes really tense. Until the perfect plan of the sisters - to help the aunt to get married, to get rid of her.

Старый чекист был вынужден доживать остатки жизни именно там, где некогда совершал свои преступления - в старой волостной управе, в подвале которой летом 1941 года он пытал и убивал. Старик велел замуровать это помещение, но призраки замученных продолжали являться ему и не давали покоя...

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

О нелегком периоде жизни латышского профессора, получившего наследство от американского дядюшки и вложившего деньги в участок земли и мельницу. Будучи смертельно больным, он торопится сделать за остаток жизни как можно больше хорошего, но он сталкивается на своем пути с непреодолимыми препятствиями...

In September 3, 1997, an art project - the annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contepmporary Arts-Riga was opened. The centre - piece of the event was the experimental opera "Rolstein on the beach", that was shown in Dailes theatre. The music and libretto of the opera was written by Hardijs Ledins and Kaspars Rolsteins, and popular musicians, actors and well - known public persons took part in the opera.

When world famous organist Anna learns about her husband’s involvement in a large-scale corruption scandal, her carefully built family life is crumbling. Will she be able to live with this new image of her husband?

The USSR, 1946. The main character, Mikhail Krasnitsky, travels to different cities across the country. When he arrives, he commits cold-blooded murders, for reasons that are not yet evident. The Secret Service manages to connect all of these crimes and figure out that all of the victims were former death camp inmates. However, the murderer’s motive still remains unclear.