Each week we are bringing you a thought-provoking and entertaining offering from the most recent run, complete with English-language subtitles, to give you a look at parts of Latvian life and personalities you might not normally encounter. To turn on subtitles, simply click the icon at the bottom of the player above.
The first film in this season is "Runcis" directed by Andrejs Verhoustinskis. It depicts the remarkable life of poet Reinis Runcis, an accomplished poet who manages to be imaginative, productive and ambitious despite having a serious disability that makes poet composition a physical as well as a literary challenge.
