Browse 33 movies from Telefilma-Rīga
A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".
Sep 1984
On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.
Jan 1979
A chemistry student causes an explosion during an exam. After that, she finds herself as a barmaid and spends the following evening in a cheerful company of musicians and cafe-goers, treating those present with drinks.
Apr 1968
An animation film for kids teaching them to love and protect nature. Based on the story "Čigānmeitēns Ringla".
Jan 1973
A little boy sees a thirsty camel in his picture book and imagines bringing him a rain cloud.
Jan 1969
Three animated songs for the youngest viewers, based on the classics of Latvian children's literature. Poems The Golden Sieve, The Cloud Boy and the Cloud Girl, and The Sun and the Moon by Rainis tell children in poetic images "how things happen in the sky", where the goddess of fate Laima scatters stars like diamond seeds, Cloud Children annoy Father Thunder by swinging and overturn the big rain bowl, but the beautiful Daughter of the Sun falls in love with the stately Moon Boy.
Jan 1975
Jan 1972
A variety of animals go on a musical adventure though the countryside.
Jan 1983
A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.
Jan 1985
Jan 1976
An animation film based on Latvian folk songs, significant due to its artistic style which was far removed from the social realism which was the only accepted form of artistic expression in the Soviet Union at the time, and also due to its undertones related to national identity.
Jan 1984
A story about the adventures of a helicopter girl named Hela.
Jan 1970
An animation film based on a poem by Vitauts Ļaudēns.
Jan 1974
The main character of the film is a charming dog. All his friends asked him to catch the wind, as it was touching everyone, and that's where it all began...
Jan 1978
The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.
The 20th Latvian Song and Dance Festival was the first in which compatriots from all corners of the world gathered in a free Latvia, including those who had gone into exile in the West and those who had been forcibly deported to Siberia. Director Dzintra Geka also brings together those who were unable to return to their homeland – footage for the film was shot in Sweden, at the 6th European Latvian Song Festival in Norrköping, where Latvian Minister of Justice Laila Freivalde, who is of Latvian descent, marches alongside her compatriots, and in Siberia, in the village of Lejas Bulāna, where Latvian women sing "...because this is Latvia, this is Bulāna...". The older generation of Canadian Latvians also dance at the festival with the Dardedze dance group from Toronto, while Mārtiņš Brauns prepares his song Saule, Pērkons, Daugava (Sun, Thunder, Daugava) for the choir.
Sep 1991
The calamities of a turtle family which is driven out of its natural environment. European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) are the only species of turtles living in Latvia and they are endangered.
Jun 1987
The animated film is based on Vika's fairy tale "The Complicated Sparrow."
An animation film based on a Latvian folk tale.
Jan 1971