Arturs Maskats

Juris Jurjāns. Seven Days of Painting, Talking, Silence (2024)

In the documentary, director Dzintra Geka has created an engaging portrait of Latvian painter Juris Jurjāns. The film delves into his world, embodying a visually rich narrative of freedom in art, life energy, and virtuosity. As always, Juris Jurjāns choo ...

Tango of Life (2024)

Claudio is a farmer. His wife Ivana is a dressmaker and they are avid tango dancers. They have a big dream: to dance the tango together in Buenos Aires. Claudio has Parkinson's, an incurable degenerative disease. His condition was diagnosed 20 years ago. ...

Sashka. A Soldier's Diary (2021)

A veteran of the Great Patriotic War finds his front-line diary and relives the story that happened to him in the midst of the war. In the midst of fire, blood and dirt, he, then still a young Sashka, takes prisoner the same German boy. The enemy is prepar ...

The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia. Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Alexander, and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported ...

Lisments Who Changed Roja (2013)

A documentary about Miķelis Lisments - a controversial director of fishermen kolkhoz "Banga" in Roja, a village in North-West Latvia. ...

Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist (2008)

Latvian artist Gustavs Klucis embraced the technological revolution of the early 20th century and applied it to his art, becoming a classic of Russian constructivism. He created photo-montage and Lenin's public image, and became the most important Soviet a ...

The Dark Deer (2007)

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 birth. The family grows deer for sale, yet, the business is not successful. To earn some money, her father ...

Atcerēties vai aizmirst? (2006)

Residents of the Cēsis district – Vizma Rass, Zigrīda Perevalova, and Andris Eglītis – recount their suffering during their school years, the deportations of 1941, and their memories of Siberia. The emotional narrative is supplemented by excerpts fr ...

Leaving by the way (2001)

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 ...

The Children of Siberia (2001)

On June 14, 1941, more than 15,000 Latvian inhabitants, including approximately 4,000 children of Latvian, Jewish, Polish and Russian ethnicity were deported to Siberia. During this period of deportation by the Soviet invaders, the men were separated from ...

Wedding (2000)

Wedding rituals and a love triangle. ...

Kā sapnī (2000)

Between the Sky and the Earth (1994)

The relationship between humans and a river throughout the seasons. ...

The Door That's Open To You (1984)

Tango of Life (2024)

Claudio is a farmer. His wife Ivana is a dressmaker and they are avid tango dancers. They have a big dream: to dance the tango together in Buenos Aires. Claudio has Parkinson's, an incurable degenerative disease. His condition was diagnosed 20 years ago. ...