Sandijs Semjonovs

Kārlis Bardelis and Gints Barkovskis (Latvia), have a plan to row from Luderitz, Namibia, to Rio das Ostras, Brazil. They have no ocean rowing experience, they've only got a second-hand rowboat and a big dream.

Brainstorm is the best-known Latvian band in Europe. They started out 25 years ago, when most of them were in the same class at school. That was the time when people in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined hands to create the Baltic Way, and the fall of the Berlin Wall became a symbol of the hunger for freedom. The young men listened to U2, the Scorpions and Roxette and dreamed of becoming famous. Now Brainstorm is famous in Russia as well. The musicians are Latvians who live in Latvia, but they reap profits in Russia. Brainstorm has experienced the most interesting and intense period of modern European history. This period has also been a dramatic time for the band itself.

Captured by Borders is a film about travelling the world in old and transformed fire trucks. They have been in more than 100 countries, on five continents, driven for more than 100 000 kilometres. As a result, we were confident that no one could stop us. Until the fire trucks were blocked on the border between China and Vietnam. By one of the most difficult border crossings in the world. After almost eight years, a rescue expedition leaves Latvia to bring the fire trucks home. How will they fare? That’s what this adventure documentary is about.

A film about a unique personality with an unbreakable spirit – Gunārs Astra. He can be considered as Latvian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn or Václav Havel. Twenty years he spent in Soviet prisons because of anti-government thinking. In a 1983 trial by the Latvian SSR, Astra said, “I believe this time will fade like an evil nightmare.” The fate of Gunārs Astra himself was tragic. Like Alexei Navalny in Russia, Astra was poisoned with tea on a train to Saint Petersburg. A week later, Gunārs Astra died. Astra’s death became a symbol of light on the long road to the restoration of Latvia’s independence.

In 2010, authors of the documentary film “Eight Full Moons” spent 5 weeks in one of the most dangerous places on planet, Kunar province - northeastern part of Afghanistan, close to the border with Pakistan. The focus of film is the human side of war, soldier emotions outside the security wall of observation post. The audience of the film becomes a witness of unique shots of the first hand emotions after the soldier is wounded in the ambush and luckily escaped from death.

A film about hockey, sweat and blood, about how hockey personalities are created and hockey legends are born - Helmuts Balderis, Mihails Vasiļonoks, Juris Reps, Artūrs Irbe and others. Hockey legends Sanda Ozoliņa's last season and Arta Ābola's first season as head coach. About Riga Dinamo's most successful season in the KHL to date. We will be at the team's pre-game meeting, where filming is usually not allowed. We will meet the people who shaped Latvian and Riga Dinamo hockey - Viktors Tihonovs, Elmārs Baurs, Vladimirs Jurzinovs, Pjotrs Vorobjovs, Ēvalds Grabovskis and Jānis Kvēps. With Normunds Sējējs and Mārtiņš Grundmanis, we will visit the former sports base in Kandava. From Riga's Daugava and the second league to Riga Dinamo's silver medals. About players' superstitions and fans' passion. About emotions and beautiful goals.

The film tells the story of the career of multiple award-winning rally driver Mārtiņš Sesks and reveals how rallying has become one of the most popular sports in Latvia.

Nora Bumbiere (1947-1994) was one of the popular estrada-singer in Latvia. This will be a documentary about Nora. About Nora, who has left us an unforgettable musical story. A story that it's time to tell.