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- DirectorDzintars DreibergsStarsOto BrantevicsGreta TrusinaMartins VilsonsAfter losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis AmanisInga AlsinaVilis DaudzinsA story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis ReinisElita KlavinaGirts KruminsThe First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.
- DirectorOskars RupenheitsStarsLauris KlavinsAndris DaugavinsMaris MicerevskisImants Veide is writing a script about con artists and their schemes. Together with his friend Harijs Kuharjonoks he's trying them out for real for greater authenticity, but gets too entangled in real criminal schemes.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsLilita BerzinaOlga DregeUldis DumpisThe struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events.
- DirectorInara KolmaneStarsRuta KronbergaElina VaneArturs SkrastinsA life-provoking, hopeful and solemn story about the growth of one human child and the relationship with the world in Latvia at the end of the 1930s.
- DirectorInara KolmaneStarsLiene BeinarovicaGuntis BerelisZane BierandeA young, promising doctor destroyed by the Soviet totalitarian regime deprives her daughter of breast milk.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsKarlis Arnolds AvotsKristiana BerzaBaiba BrokaAn aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
- DirectorJanis AbeleStarsBruno BitenieksAlekss TaurinsEndijs ZuksWhen a 14-year-old boy falls in love with his classmate, he befriends rebellious teenagers who change his view of the world.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsUldis DumpisGundars AbolinsMaija ApineSet in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsRomualds AncansMartins DancausksSigne DundureA story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsEdvin EndreJames BloorDainis GrubeOn his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsSabine TimoteoEdvins MekssIvars KrastsBased on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
- StarsInga TropaJuris BartkevicsArturs SkrastinsA mini-series about Emilija Benjamina, the "queen of the press" in interwar Latvia, whose wealth and tragic fate have since become folklore.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsDavis SuharevskisBrigita CmuntováAgnese BudovskaFollows the talented Ansis as he negotiates a national dictatorship in his pursuit of an art career.
- DirectorAnna VidulejaStarsIgors SelegovskisKaspars ZnotinsKristine KruzeThe action takes place in 1938. The film tells about a young artist Juris Upenajs who comes to Riga where he begins to build his career.
- DirectorMatiss KazaStarsMarija Luize MelkeGreta TrusinaGerds LaposkaAs her family is falling apart, twenty-year-old Laine gets introduced to Riga's underground raves where she experiences love and slowly begins to lose connection with reality.
- DirectorRenars VimbaStarsElina VaskaAndzejs LilientalsEdgars SamitisAbandoned by their mother and stuck in a miserable living situation, 17-year old Raya and her adolescent brother Robis must decide between an orphanage or the guardianship of their grandmother, whom they despise.
- DirectorVaris BraslaStarsMaris Sonnenbergs-SambergsMadara DislereDace EversaThe Svensson family lives in farm called Katthult in Sweden - father, mother, daughter Ida and son Emil. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him but the results are usually not what he initially wanted.
- DirectorJanis StreicsStarsIvars KalninsArturs SkrastinsAgnese ZeltinaLove triangle - terminally ill professor, blind girl and young bard. In the background - wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love conquers everything.
- DirectorDavis Simanis Jr.StarsArturs SkrastinsIlze BlaubergaMatiss KipluksZanis Lipke's family's efforts to save the Jews during World War II and the rise of the child in a tragic historical situation.
- DirectorMadara DislereStarsMagda Lotte AuzinaMarta AuzaneLiva LocmeleArriving at her cousins home in a late eighties Latvia rattled by political turmoil and faced with divorce in her own family, nine year old Paula learns that no matter what the future of her country might bring, family values are of greater significance than anything.