Viesturs Kairišs Movies
- 2020
The Sign Painter
The Sign Painter6.82020HD
A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his...
- 2022
January
January6.52022HD
It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the...
- 2018
Viestur Kairish Comes Out Of The Woods
Viestur Kairish Comes Out Of The Woods02018HD
A tragicomic tale about the relationship of Guna and the twice older writer Gints. Guna has lost her job, but Gints hasn’t written anything in...
- 2001
Magic Flute
Magic Flute02001HD
“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close...
- 1997
Latavio, or Life Nr. 2
Latavio, or Life Nr. 201997HD
An omnibus film consisting of ten parts, each directed by a different young director from the Latvian Academy of Culture. The unifying element of the...
- 2016
The Chronicles of Melanie
The Chronicles of Melanie6.22016HD
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force...
- 2007
The Dark Deer
The Dark Deer02007HD
17-year-old Ria is a sensitive and mysterious young woman. Ria's mother has suffered in a car accident and has stopped speaking since her daughter's...
- 2000
Wedding
Wedding02000HD
Wedding rituals and a love triangle.
- 2024
Cohabitants
Cohabitants02024HD
Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. The Russian Old Believers who inhabited the island appeared here...
- 2004
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet02004HD
An emotional and stylistically consistent documentary musical depicting the staging of Bernstein’s West Side Story with deaf youths. The...
- 2014
The Invisible City
The Invisible City02014HD
A story about a city built as a paradise but turned into hell – a city slowly turning into paradise again, just in a different way. Igor has...
- 2014
Pelican in the Desert
Pelican in the Desert5.52014HD
Latgale is a land on the very eastern edge of the European Union. Sometimes it seems like a land in the middle of a body of water. At other times, it...
- 2004
The Monument
The Monument02004HD
Viesturs Kairišs’ 2004 documentary The Monument investigates the interpretation of Riga’s Soviet Second World War memorial in the...
- 2009
Lohengrin from Varka Kru
Lohengrin from Varka Kru02009HD
A creative a portrait of Latvian luger and Olympic medal winner, Martins Rubenis, who won the first Latvia's Winter Olympic medal of the games in...
- 2001
Leaving by the way
Leaving by the way02001HD
A tale about a nine-year old boy's relationship with the world around him, shot in one of Latvia's poorest and most beautiful regions - Latgale
- 2024
Wild South
Wild South02024HD
Stories about Tartu and Southern Estonia, capturing the tricks and mysteries about the arts of survival. Renowned filmmakers from Estonia and abroad...