Winners of 2024 Riga International Film Festival
RIGA: Songs of the Slow Burning Earth by Olha Zhurba received the main award in the Feature Film Competition at the 11th Riga International Film Festival (17 – 27 October…
FNE at RIGA IFF 2024: Māris Maskalāns' Doc The End Has Its World Premiere in International Competition
RIGA: Māris Maskalāns, one of the greatest documentary observers of nature in the Baltics, has completed a documentary that explores the inevitable fate of everything that lives or has ever…
FNE at RIGA IFF 2024: Laila Pakalniņa's New Documentary Termini Has Its World Premiere in International Competition
RIGA: Acclaimed Latvian director Laila Pakalniņa's new documentary Termini / Galapunkti will have its world premiere in the International Competition of the Riga International Film Festival (17 - 27 October…
Canoe Film Picks Up Latvian Series Mutiny
RIGA: The 7-episode Latvian TV drama Mutiny has been acquired by the London-based Canoe Film ahead of its showcase at MIPCOM in Cannes (21 – 24 October 2024). Later, the…
FNE at RIGA IFF 2024: Uģis Olte’s Genre-Blending TESA MAN Opens the Festival
RIGA: Latvian film director Uģis Olte continues his venture into soundscapes and wilderness, and his new music film TESA MAN will have its world premiere as the opening film of…
Latvia Introduces 30% Support for Foreign Film Projects
RIGA: Under a new mechanism, which is waiting for the Parliament’s approval, Latvia will introduce a 30% eligible funding support for the film industry and foreign film projects in 2025,…
RIGA IFF Coproduction Market RIGA IFF SHOWCASE 2024 Announces Lineup
RIGA: Sixteen projects (eight feature films and eight series) from the Baltics and Eastern as well as Central Europe have been selected for the 3rd edition of RIGA IFF SHOWCASE.…
RIGA IFF 2024 Announces Lineup
RIGA: Ten films from distinct voices from the Baltic Sea region and the Nordic countries that use an innovative cinematic language have been selected for the main competition of the…
Winners of 2024 Baltic Sea Docs
RIGA: Projects from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Romania, Germany and Kazakhstan are among the winners of the 28th edition of the Baltic Sea Docs documentary pitching forum, which was held…
RIGA IFF Announces Short Film Competitions' Screenings
RIGA: The Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF), running 17 – 27 October 2024, has announced the contestants of the international and national short film competitions.
PRODUCTION: Dāvis Sīmanis in Postproduction with Latvian/Czech Documentary Death of Death
RIGA: The acclaimed Latvian director Dāvis Sīmanis is currently in postproduction with the Latvian/Czech documentary Death of Death. Balancing an existential road film with a humorous science fiction, the doc…
PRODUCTION: Jānis Ābele in Postproduction with Latvian Documentary The Last Will
RIGA: Latvian director/writer Jānis Ābele is currently in postproduction with his documentary The Last Will, which is expected to be released in the autumn of 2024.
FNE Oscar Watch 2025: Latvia Selects Flow as Oscar Candidate
RIGA: The long animated film Flow directed by Gints Zilbalodis has been unanimously chosen by the jury appointed by the National Film Centre of Latvia as Latvia’s candidate for the…
New TV Series Explores Latvian Ghost Stories
RIGA: The eight-episode Latvian series Horrible Stories / Briesmīgi stāstiņi, produced by KMM Visuals and the tech company Tet, will premiere on the Tet TV+ platform on 31 October 2024.
Jan Švankmajer Retrospective at RIGA IFF 2024
RIGA: The first tickets for this year’s Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF, 17–27 October) are now on sale, granting access to the retrospective of Czech animation director and artist…
RIGA IFF Forum Launches Call for Applications
RIGA: The industry event of the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF), RIGA IFF Forum, has launched the call for applications for its two main events: Short Riga Test Screenings…
Agnese Lāce Appointed New Minister of Culture in Latvia
RIGA: Agnese Lāce is the new Minister of Culture in Latvia, as the previous Minister of Culture Agnese Logina, who had taken office on 15 September 2023, stepped down on…
Baltic Sea Docs 2024 Announces Selected Projects
RIGA: A total of 26 projects from 17 countries, including Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia, have been selected for Baltic Sea Docs 2024. The leading documentary pitching…
FNE at Cannes 2024: Latvian Cinema in Cannes
Latvia at the 77th Festival de Cannes - Meet us at the Latvian stand Village International Riviera (119)
GRANTS: Latvia Announces Production Grants
RIGA: The National Film Centre of Latvia has distributed 1,800,158 EUR for annual production grants in 2024. The list includes a total of 14 films: six feature films, six documentaries…
