Matīss Kaža : 2020
Kur vedis cels

The story of Eva, a sixteen-year-old aristocrat who goes missing from the Baron's manor on the day of her arranged wedding. When the Baron's head servant, Magda, is found murdered in the manor's stables, an investigation starts where everyone is a suspect. The Baron's henchmen, local law enforcement and other involved parties set out to find the girl who has chosen to set her own destiny in a time of great social imbalance. But Eva will do everything it takes to secure her freedom.

Michal Hogenauer : 2019
Tiché doteky

Mia goes to live with a family as their au pair. She knows she'll be looking after a 10-year-old boy, but that is all. Yet her very first meeting with the family suggests that she is expected to do rather more than this. She has to pay the price for a life of high financial and intellectual reward by following a set of strict rules: breaking any of them would lead to her immediate dismissal and a ticket back home. However, it would also mean abandoning a child she is trying to reach out to, and losing her self-respect. An examination of the strength of an individual's resilience to manipulation and the extent to which people are willing to make sacrifices in order to preserve their self-esteem. Michal Hogenauer's feature debut premiered in competition in the East of the West section at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2019.

Renārs Vimba : 2016
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Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love reveal the character of Raya, a 17-year-old living in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. A staggering turn of events shakes up their lives, and the young girl must come to decisions that even a grown woman would find difficult to make. No one shall know that their grandmother has died. To avoid being taken into the care of the authorities, Raya and her brother bury the old woman they grew up with in the garden by the apple orchard. With no one else to depend on, Raya has to organise daily survival for herself and her brother. She's pinning all her hopes on their mother, who has emigrated to England. The film describes the difficult situation of those left behind in a country that many people have already abandoned. It is a portrait of a resourceful and determined young woman who refuses to give up her dreams despite the hardships life has thrown at her. In her constant struggle to evade the authorities, she tries to find her own happiness whilst taking care of her brother. Renārs Vimba's feature debut was winner of the Crystal Bear for Best Film when it premiered in the Generation section at Berlin International Film Festival 2016.

Ināra Kolmane : 2012

A story about different worlds – about a man and a woman, about city and countryside, about future and past. It is also a story about animals and their killers, about deep and short-lived passion and the ancient mystery of a woman. A businessman from Riga arrives at his uncle's funeral in a small Latvian village, a village whose main landmark and virtually the only source of income is a slaughterhouse. There he meets Mona, a local woman, and abandons the idea of ever returning to Riga. But the small-town environment, daily life, people and their mode of thinking have not yet been fully freed from the legacy of the Soviet times. Unlike the European Riga, everything is more conservative and less apt to change in the remote countryside. The dull life of several villagers is turned upside down, and a fusion of passion, mystery, animal instincts and human fragility emerges. It is a story about love as a misunderstanding and misunderstandings created by passion.