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 homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life's work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating 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 feature shot as a documentary, with minimal interference in the surrounding action. The resulting film is a truthful and innocent portrayal of the...

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...

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

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

Portrait of a 75 year old ambulance driver Juris Kairišs.

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

An observation of life, people, and surroundings in the towns of Kurzeme — Talsi, Kandava, and Sabile.

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

The short experimental documentary tells the story of an old rifleman living in the middle of the forest.

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...

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

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

On the fate of the Livonian people in Latvia.

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.

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

On the history of Latvian photography from the late 19th century to 1917.

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