Andis Mizišs

Jaguar's Corner (2010)

In 1946, a group of Latvian Brazilian Baptist missionaries arrived to Rincon del Tigre ("Jaguar's Corner"), in the backwoods of Bolivia, to preach God's word to the Ayoreo Indians. After sixty years of selfless work in a largely hostile environment, someth ...

The Hunt (2009)

After the lives of several people are tied into a intriguing knot upon meeting police officer Krasts one hot summer day, they're all brought together again on a full moon winter night. Intrigue develops among a couple of lovers, Gints and Elga, three adven ...

The Church Will Arrive in the Evening (2007)

In the ice-free months of the year Father Gennady captains a barge transformed into a floating Orthodox Church on a mission trip along the Volga-Don Canal to the remote Russian villages. At each port of call Father Gennady leads church services, distribute ...

The Worm (2005)

Inese (41) and Karlis (62) occupy an illegally built hut in the suburbs of Riga in Latvia. After the collapse of socialism, they have found themselves at the bottom of the social ladder, doomed to fighting for mere existence. They live on a single retiring ...

eu (2004)

It's Latvia on the 20th of September, 2003 - the day of the referendum about joining the European Union. On the day of the referendum, twelve Latvian film directors of different generations portray twelve different characters across the country. Their life ...

The Followers (2003)

What draws thousands of people to leave everything behind and venture out into Siberian taiga, following Visarion, an ex-agent of the Soviet police who proclaims to be Jesus? The film tries to answer this question, showing the construction of the New Jerus ...

Ar domu par zāli (2002)

The film is about crossing a line that leads to becoming part of a group of people labeled as drug addicts. It all starts with seemingly innocent marijuana smoking, with the hope that "nothing will happen to me, I won't get addicted"... ...

The Stumble (2001)

Late in a winter evening an amateur walker with his pals takes a short cut through a spooky cemetery. Everything would be fine except he stumbles. He wakes up in strange, haunted place, where time and space have lost the boundaries. ...

Roof on the Moonway (2001)

In the early 1980's two hundred pairs of common terns (Sterna hirundo) were forced to abandon their last natural nesting place on a river island near a major European capital Riga. Looking for a new habitat, the birds chose the flat pebbled roof of a concr ...

Latavio, or Life Nr. 2 (1997)

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 ten shorts is the place where they take place - the airport. A lot can happen there - including a strike b ...

In A Loop (1990)