September 28 and 29 will see the annual Rīga Conference taking place at the Latvian National Library. A range of topics from the future direction of the European Union to plans for collective defense will be under discussion. You can watch a livestream of the proceedings here on LSM and at the official conference website.
Riga mayor Nils Ušakovs on July 6 posted video footage of a disgruntled commuter indulging in dangerous jaywalking on a busy road.
The documentary Residents probes problems in Latvia in general and Latvia's medicine in particular with the story of two energetic young interns, Kārlis and Laura. It is the last of the Latvian Code series of films to be featured this year.
LSM announces the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television. Latvian Code films reflect the extraordinary lives of Latvians across the globe.
LSM announces the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). Latvian Code films reflect the extraordinary lives of people in Latvia.
LSM announces the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). Latvian Code films reflect the extraordinary lives of people in Latvia.
LSM announces the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). Latvian Code films reflect the extraordinary lives occurring in Latvia.
In this film a young man and his curmudgeonly grandfather are going 1,800 km to northern Russia in an old Zhiguli car, hoping to find the grave of the director's great-grandfather, who was deported. The film is part of the annual Latvian Code contest and the last to be featured this year.
When you're in prison, you're sure to have ample free time. The young men in Without Them, the fourth film to be featured in the English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code, have more than 60 years to spend in prison between them. What can they do to pass time?
The Latvian language has three dialects and around 500 subdialects. Hear how three Latvian ways of speech sound like in the movie Runātāji (Talkers), the third film to be featured in the English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code that were selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV).
LSM announces the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). Latvian Code films reflect the extraordinary daily lives of ordinary Latvians. The first winner to be featured is Lāsma Ābele's film Let's Make It Pretty! (Latvian - Lai smuki!) focusing on people trying to make their surroundings more beautiful with things others might not find pretty at all.
This is the last installment of LSM's English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in a contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). The last winner to be featured is Agnese Laizāne's film Detective Mārtiņš (Latvian - Detektīvs Mārtiņš) that shows a senior private investigator who has dedicated his life to helping people find someone they've lost.
This is the newest installment of LSM's English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in a contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). The sixth out of seven winners to be featured is Ivars Zviedris' and Inese Kļava's co-production Murjāņi School (Latvian - Murjāņu skola) that shows the Murjāņi sports school where future sports professionals are born.
This is the newest installment of LSM's English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in a contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). This year’s fifth out of seven winners to be featured is Aiga Skrīvere's film Just a child (Latvian - Tikai bērns) that shows the moving story of two young women - aged 15 and 16 - who've become mothers at an early age with little to support them.
This is the newest installment of LSM's English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in a contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). This year’s fourth out of seven winners to be featured is Ināra Kolmane's film Prayer for a Home (Latvian - Lūgšana mājai) that shows a moving story of a family trying to stick together no matter what.
This is the latest installment in the English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in a contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). This year’s third out of seven winners to be featured is Adriāna Roze's film Rīga Gentlemen (Latvian - Rīgas kungi) that shows the inner workings of a group of four cycle couriers in their natural habitat - the Latvian capital Rīga.
LSM announces the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in a contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). This year’s first winner to be featured is Krista Burāne's film of schoolchildren taking charge of things titled 'Think School'
"The Kremlin's fog" (Kremļa miglā), a new documentary by LTV's acclaimed De Facto investigative team presents the ways in which the power of the Kremlin is used, and ideas expedient to it are spread - in the rest of the world in general and Latvia in particular.
LSM marks the return of its Latvian Code - an English-subtitled series of documentary films selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). The last of the films to be featured online is Dzintars Dreibergs' depiction of the village of Lone, where a Finnish businessman has succeeded in helping the locals get to work with the proper good attitude.
LSM marks the return of its Latvian Code - an English-subtitled series of documentary films selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). The fifth in the crop of six films featured this year is Una Celma's view of life at a retirement home through the eyes of its elderly residents in the Latvian countryside titled The Brief Day.
LSM marks the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). The fourth film in the crop of six to be featured this year is Līga Gaisa's unique behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people and animals of the time-worn, but still magical Riga Circus.
This film tells the story of Australian-Latvian journalist Peter Greste, perhaps the most well-known reporter in the world at the moment. It relates how the Greste family left Latvia and how important Latvia is to them. We’ll visit with Peter after his release from jail in Egypt – first at a Sydney television show and then with the people and situations he encounters upon first going surfing on Bondi Beach in Brisbane.
The Final Bell tells of life in a rural school that is about to go out of existence. After the instruction is received from the local authority that Mežvidi Primary School must close, the pupils continue to study, express themselves creatively and have fun, but with a sense of the inevitable fate that is approaching.
LSM marks the return of its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code and selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV). This time it’s Daina Zviedre’s lyrical rendition of a moment in a lifetime as symbolized by the story about a train.
Latvians are said to be one of the more superstitious peoples in Europe. The Guide is one of the mythical characters they believe in that somehow leads us and determines where we go.
37 years ago, when in then-Soviet Latvia oak trees were being felled by explosives, poet Imants Ziedonis gathered a group of like-minded people and set out to free the great old trees from the overgrowth.
Ipiķi is Latvia’s northernmost inhabited point right by the Estonian border. This film is a visual poem about the children and adults of Ipiķi, about how their life stories have been influenced by the place in which they live.