Through the eyes of a farmer's daughter, the land bears witness to generations of struggle and sacrifice, as she grapples with the choice to embrace the dust they call their own or chase a future beyond the fields.
Paper Cut is a short film that explores the struggles of a student who faces unexpected challenges while trying to complete his college. Set within the familiar environment of classrooms and college, the film highlights themes of pressure, friendship, and perseverance. As tensions rise, small moments reveal deeper conflicts and emotional layers.
The State Electrotechnical Factory's cultural palace, or vefiņš, was opened on March 1, 1960, and was allocated for the factory's needs. However, today science has been banished from these walls. Alongside the brightest local pop artists, countless feet and legs dressed in pastels tread the boards of this stage every year to determine which group will take center stage at the Daugava Stadium during the Song and Dance Festival. Meanwhile, the young, promising and provocative documentary filmmaker Ingmārs Somis has come here to make a film about the "other side" of folk dancing on stage - about nationalistic programming, worn-out feet, sunburn and blouses tucked into underpants. He has decided to expose the teachers, lecture the parents, liberate the dancers, destroy the VEF cultural palace, get hold of the Great Kristaps and enter the Latvian cultural canon.
Young flutist and conductor Maija's secret dream has come true—she has been entrusted with conducting her first orchestra. However, Maija's inner insecurity and fear of conflict do not help her cope with the energetic youth orchestra. In addition, the overly cheerful choirmaster Kārlis, in his attempts to help the young conductor, only undermines her already non-existent authority. When Maija remembers the legendary conductor Leonīds Vīgners and his authoritative leadership style, she feels a strange inspiration. The changes in the young conductor's personality surprise both her and her orchestra, which has only three rehearsals left before the concert. Maija must decide how to lead her orchestra to the concert - in the style of Leonīds Vīgners, or in her own?
An unsettling psychological descent into guilt, denial, and fractured identity. A father attends his daughter's funeral—a girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered. But when a young stranger, eerily resembling the father, appears and begins an unwanted conversation, the fragile facade of reality starts to crack. What begins as a confrontation spirals into something far more harrowing: a reckoning with a buried self. Inspired by Amélie Nothomb’s The Enemy’s Cosmetique, this film explores the monstrous duality of man—and the haunting price of facing one’s own darkness.
American-born teen, Rima the Lost One, unites with her great-grandmother, also named Rima, on a time-travel journey to 1930s Palestine. After clashing with her modern-ish Mom on vacation, Rima the Lost One finds herself warped through a portal that takes her to the present of her ancestors. Rima the Lost One must navigate her ancestral homeland, a place she’s never known. She desperately looks for a way home, aka the present, the place she originally desired to escape from.
This film follows the emotional connection between a mother and daughter's eroding relationship ever since they became estranged. With cinematography rooted in realism and a story embedded in real life events. The High Road is a symbol for all women failed by their mothers.
Two childhood best friends, bound by a shared dream of performing, reach an emotional crossroads when their hopes of attending music school start to unravel, forcing them to face the painful reality of growing up and drifting apart.
In a 70s landscape of theatre, a charming dream-chaser says hello to the love of his life for the first time. 50 years later, a simple hill is preventing him from saying goodbye.
In a bustling English city, two young immigrants—Yarik, a 20-year-old student from Moscow, and Claire, a 22-year-old waitress from France—wake up to find that they can no longer understand anyone around them. Strangely, no one understands them either. As they navigate a confusing and isolating day filled with miscommunication, frustration, and moments of quiet despair, the two strangers eventually cross paths. Drawn together by their shared confusion, Yarik and Claire form an unlikely bond. As the day unfolds, their journey becomes a poignant exploration of identity, isolation, and the invisible threads that tie us all together.
In a quiet town, young vampire Faith seeks solitude to battle her violent urges. When she forms unexpected bonds with a group of misfits, she’s forced to confront her true nature in this fresh take on the vampire myth.
A Cherokee woman fights to protect her niece from an unlawful adoption by her white grandparents as she reckons with feeling distant from her own culture.
A young woman gets lost in the depths of her unconscious until the thin line between the images of her dreams and the memories of her impersonal life shakes her truth.
In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer reanimates his dead father for one last conversation... awakening phantoms of unspoken grief.