Movies: Aivars Freimanis

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...

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more...

Latvia, late 19th century. Farm-hand boy Jancis lives on a homestead with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. His world does not reach beyond the horizon, and life progresses according to the seasonal cycle – from winter through spring, summer a...

A feature shot as a documentary, with minimal interference in the surrounding action. The resulting film is a truthful and innocent portrayal of the era with no imitations or conscious borrowings but with its own avant-garde experiments....

A story about the backstage of travelling Latvian puppet theatre "Maska". The group consists of three actors and a tiny bus. They travel around the county performing at clubs in the countryside, schools, kindergartens......

A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive....

A short experimental documentary by Latvian filmmaker Aivars Feimanis....

Joyful, humorous and slightly ironic look on the daily life in Soviet Latvia in 1987....

An observation of life, people, and surroundings in the towns of Kurzeme — Talsi, Kandava, and Sabile....

A young couple of biologists and their two children move from Riga to a nature reserve where they're provided with an old country cottage. They start to repair the cottage and feel at home, but the former owner of the house suddenly returns from Cana...

Children's aesthetic education at Kandava Boarding School....

A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live alongside the optimism of new construction and the smiling faces of the new generation....

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Latvia. The team was joined by the heavyweight poet Imants Zied...

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors, flooded fields. The film turned scandalous and was not screened, because of it allegedly being anti-Soviet...

A tragicomic story about the passions and commotions behind the closed doors of communal flats in Riga....

Aivars Freimanis' documentary consisting of small episodes from a trip to Kurzeme....

On the history of Latvian photography from the late 19th century to 1917....

Documentarian Aivars Feimanis lived on the Liv Coast, in Melnsils. It's home to Latvia’s ancient indigenous Livs - a small Finno-Ugric people of the North Kurzeme coast, who preserve their unique folklore and traditions to this day. This film is abou...

On the fate of the Livonian people in Latvia....

A happening with Latvian composer and writer Marģeris Zariņš....