Esterhāzi māte
A runaway bride, a young peasant, mysterious illusionists and a manic investigator become entwined in a murderous affair at a Baltic German baron's manor.
Elīna returns to the summer house of her childhood to show it to buyers. The visceral presence of her dead grandmother forces her to reflect on the legacy of failing familial relations – and how she and her mother are approaching a similar fate.
Solveiga
Десятилетний Маркус решает преподать жестокий урок девочке, отпустившей едкий комментарий в отношении его умершего отца
A young woman on a train. The same young woman in an old house peeling potatoes, or hanging the laundry out to dry. She's alone but not for long. Potential buyers infiltrate the peace and serenity that surround both the house and the protagonist. The images tell the story and with the little information we get, we know just enough.
Imants is a security guard at a small town store. He is always nice, honest and truthful and would not let anything happen to the store and to the people that are working there, until one night when his honesty and truthfulness are set to a test. He has been given a choice – stay and be dishonest with himself or leave and open has hart to love. The choice seems easy, but it takes some courage to step out of a place where you have been for ages.
A brother and a sister come to visit their grandmother in the countryside to attend their father's funeral. It takes just a few days of being in the middle of nowhere for things to get out of control.
Mate
Peter is just another "peter", so very ordinary. He works in an office where colleagues make fun of him and the boss makes sexual advances. His sick mother harasses him at home. Bit by bit his life becomes completely unbearable. Once, by chance, Peter happens to try magic mushrooms and this adventure turns into a move towards a different life.
Ieva Lepere
Throughout her life Marga has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia. But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased husband Juris. She becomes increasingly lost in her forgetfulness and suddenly demands, like a child, gentleness. It’s an uncomfortable situation for Sofia who must now take care of her mother. Sofia’s growing realization that Marga’s past also affects her own gives Sofia impetus to make a sudden journey with her mother to Riga. This is where Marga grew up and where she married Juris. But the more Sofia learns about her mothers, the less clear it becomes who she herself is.
Latvia is governed by a strange ruler with a pig’s snout who calls himself Mr. Snout. Loath to being filmed himself and to filmmaking in general, he has locked up all positive heroes in an effort to prevent filming from taking place. The few survivors hope for the return of the Latvian folk hero Bear-slayer, who vanished into the river many centuries ago. In these harsh times, Bear-slayer rises from the water again to fight Mr. Snout. This film is a criticism of how the inaction of the Latvian government has brought Latvian filmmaking close to extinction.
Peter is just another peter, so very ordinary. He works at the office where colleagues make fun of him, the boss makes sexual advances and the sick mother harasses him at home. Step by step his life becomes completely unbearable. Once by a chance Peter happens to try magic mushrooms and this adventure turns into new move towards a different life.
In the cemetery of small town, a Man and a Woman, both middle-aged, meet at sunset. He has a ter-
rible plan of how to battle with cemetery vandals, but she is suspicious of his real purpose
Дружное семейство учителя музыки переживает сложное время. Отец остался без работы — и теперь нависла угроза остаться без жилья. К тому же приближается Рождество, и хочется, чтобы была елка и царило веселье. Дети всегда верят в чудеса — и чудо совершается...
Dievlodziņu saimniece
A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons' life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian self-awareness.
Действие фильма происходит в Латвии в конце XIX - начале XX века. Янис Балодис возвращается из Риги в родную деревню, где встречается со своей юношеской любовью - Айей. Охваченный прежним чувством, Янис женится на ней. Но вскоре понимает: Айя вышла за него не по любви, а в надежде вырваться из бедности. Видя, что Янис не в силах помочь в этом, она вновь начинает встречаться со своим давним приятелем Айзупсом, который время от времени дает ей деньги. Узнав об этом, доведенный до отчаяния, Янис уходит из жизни.
Mate
Неистощимый на проказы Эмиль - человек вполне серьезный и независимый, а в экстремальные ситуации попадает из любопытства и по доброте душевной. От природы он добр, отважен, сообразителен, и вполне возможно, что и станет председателем муниципалитета, как мечтает его мама.