Ivars Seleckis

To Be Continued. Teenhood (2024)

Five children started school in different parts of Latvia in 2015 and we followed them through their first schoolyear in the 2018 documentary "To be continued". Now 14 years old, they are halfway to adulthood. Some have matured, some seem to be still linge ...

The Land (2022)

Through six very different families, documentary "The Land" shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions of countryside living as well as illusions about farmer's life. There are various reasons why our protagonists chose t ...

To Be Continued (2018)

The To Be Continued documentary follows lives of five children throughout their first school year. Kārlis's family is firmly rooted in the Latvian countryside. Gleb's grandparents came to Latvia only in the Soviet period. Zane's family are first-generati ...

Over the Roads, Over the River (2014)

Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old Jewish Cemetery), Ivars Seleckis (On Ķīpsala), Audrius Stonys (Riga Boats), Jaak Kilmi (Littering Prohibited!), ...

Capitalism at Crossroad Street (2013)

This is the 3rd film in almost 30 years about the daily lives of the people living in this small street of Pārdaugava. We first met them in the late 1980s when the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse. We visited them again in the wild 1990s. And now ...

In the Shade of the Oak Tree (2007)

The story of rural people in 2004 - at the time when Latvia joined the European Union. A thorough study of the situation in rural Latvia over the course of the last thirty years, where the conflict between the familiar and the new, and desire and opportuni ...

Primadonna on Rollerskates (2001)

She is young and beautiful. But a film portrait is more grateful to the life story of a person whose greatest works are already behind them... If the heroine of our film is so young, the most difficult path remains – to try to show how this star of the s ...

New Times at Crossroad Street (1999)

Ten years have passed since we made the film "Crossroad Street", about a small street in the suburbs of the city of Riga. Now we've come back. Perhaps it was a sense of duty, perhaps nostalgia that brought us back – who knows? Perhaps it was both. Daiga, ...

Nāc lejā, bālais mēnes! (1994)

A documentary about farmers in Latvian countryside. ...

Zolitūde (1990)

Zolitude is inhabited mainly by immigrants. An extremely denational environment, a disorderly everyday life, depressing standard type architecture - these are the problems faced by the film's characters. ...

Crossroad Street (1988)

Crossroad Street is a small street just 800 metres long on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga. Its various inhabitants, each with his or her own destiny, daily life and relationships with the neighbours, form a microcosm of the country during the t ...

Amber Latvian - 87 (1987)

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

Maestro bez frakas (1985)

The composer Raimonds Pauls, the artist of the USSR People's Stage, shares his thoughts on life and work. The authors focus on the difficult daily work of a talented artist. ...

Sieviete starp diviem romāniem (1984)

The film tells the story of writer Regīna Ezera. The writer swims in a lake, shops at the market, writes on a typewriter at home, and writes the book "Nostalgia." R. Ezera rides a train at the Riga Railway Station. Regīna Ezera at a congress in Moscow. ...

Wanted: A Man (1983)

A sequel-of-sorts to "Sieviete, kuru gaida?", where the authors focussed on the role of a woman in society. Now their turning their focus on men. ...

Short Tutorial on Loving (1982)

In the Latvian countryside at the end of the 19th century, Jānis decides it is time to find a wife—but choosing the right one proves no easy task. Pretending to have gone deaf after listening to church bells from the bell tower, he visits the surroundin ...

The Woman Who is Awaited? (1978)

A film about a woman's role in the society. ...

In the Shadow of a Sword (1976)

Mirror of Thirst (1976)

The degradation of a human under the influence of alcohol. ...

Motorcycle Summer (1975)

On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to steal her from the wedding reception. ...

Apcirkņi (1973)

A documentary about farmers in the Latvian countryside. ...

Horse Play (1973)

Reflections on human's relationship with horses throughout the ages and their depiction in art are shown in parallel to the draft horse competition. ...

Your Payday (1971)

Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people. ...

The Girls of Valmiera (1970)

One of the first socially relevant poetic films in Latvian cinema history, documenting the lives of female workers at a fiberglass factory – their work, leisure, dreams, hopes, and also the problems caused by the "influx" of young women into the small to ...

A Catch (1969)

A leisurely message about the people of the Zvejnieks collective farm, created in the style of Riga's poetic documentary cinema. ...

Sports Review, N. 3 (1969)

Newsreel edition with stories about archery competition and marathons in running, cycling and car sports, using the form of personal narrative behind the scenes. ...

Frescoes of Kuldīga (1966)

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga. ...

Year in Review (1965)

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Latvia. The team was joined by the heavyweight poet Imants Ziedonis a ...

The Coast (1963)

A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live alongside the optimism of new construction and the smiling faces of the new generation. ...

The Send-Off (1963)

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors, flooded fields. The film turned scandalous and was not screened, because of it allegedly being anti-Soviet: defa ...

My Riga (1960)

A protopoetic short about Riga and the people of Riga in their twenties. ...

Bridges of Time (2018)

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more r ...

Comeback (2006)

Uldis Brauns' conversation with Ivars Seleckis about films and time. ...

Message to Man (1989)

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Ivars Sel ...