Aivars Freimanis Movies

At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct...

A feature shot as a documentary, with minimal interference in the surrounding action. The resulting film is a truthful and innocent portrayal of the...

Latvia, late 19th century. Farm-hand boy Jancis lives on a homestead with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. His world does not reach beyond...

A tragicomic story about the passions and commotions behind the closed doors of communal flats in Riga.

A story about the Livonian (Liv) language going extinct, and about the people still trying to keep it alive.

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the...

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors,...

Aivars Freimanis' documentary consisting of small episodes from a trip to Kurzeme.

Portrait of a 75 year old ambulance driver Juris Kairišs.

A documentary about Indulis Ranka, a Latvian sculptor.

A short experimental documentary by Latvian filmmaker Aivars Feimanis.

A happening with Latvian composer and writer Marģeris Zariņš.

A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live...

A story about the backstage of travelling Latvian puppet theatre "Maska". The group consists of three actors and a tiny bus. They travel around the...

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour...

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.

A young couple of biologists and their two children move from Riga to a nature reserve where they're provided with an old country cottage. They start...

Documentarian Aivars Feimanis lived on the Liv Coast, in Melnsils. It's home to Latvia’s ancient indigenous Livs - a small Finno-Ugric people...

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