Aivars Freimanis Movies

Latvia, late 19th century. Farm-hand boy Jancis lives on a homestead with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. His world does not reach beyond...

A feature shot as a documentary, with minimal interference in the surrounding action. The resulting film is a truthful and innocent portrayal of the...

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct...

A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live...

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

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the...

A short experimental documentary by Latvian filmmaker Aivars Feimanis.

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

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...

Portrait of a 75 year old ambulance driver Juris Kairišs.

A documentary about Indulis Ranka, a Latvian sculptor.

A happening with Latvian composer and writer Marģeris Zariņš.

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

Documentarian Aivars Feimanis lived on the Liv Coast, in Melnsils. It's home to Latvia’s ancient indigenous Livs - a small Finno-Ugric people...

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...

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors,...

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour...

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