Homeland

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.

A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their faces in a single continuous shot. The performance itself remains unseen, while the children’s shifting expressions—fear, laughter, curiosity, and suspense—suggest the story unfolding before them as ten minutes of their lives quietly pass.

An autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier films: births, autopsies, circumcisions, prisoners awaiting execution and other shocking themes.

A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.

Portrayal of a generation of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.

A collective portrait of the Latvian Red Riflemen is made up of memories told by the old men themselves. Unique and harsh are their destinies during the World War I and the revolution, at the opposite fronts of civil war, in 1930s. The victories of the Riflemen, their courage, confidence, pain and tragedy. The authors of the film have been able to save these tales from the relentless flow of time and make everyone realise the role of the Latvian Riflemen in history and nation.

A film about the well-known Latvian artists, choir conductors - Imants and Gido Kokars.

Afterword for the film "Homeland" - January 1991. Death of Andris Slapiņš and Gvido Zvaigzne.

A film portrait of the poet Ojars Vacietis.

The director mixes excerpts from his documentaries Soviets and Homeland with footage of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A film of the popular composer Raimonds Pauls - with music, songs and open conversation about popularity, light and serious music

The life of a 16 yearo-old convict through the Soviet penal system. The "restricted area" is a penal colony and Borstal, a "work camp" for delinquent children and young people. The film shows the contradictions in the notion of corrective education.

A film about the former partisan commander Vilis Samsons.

A documentary on elderly Naivist painters in 90ies Latvia. These people find a lot of joy and harmony in their amazing creations even if they might not know a lot about the conventional art.