A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life’s work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas, thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons’ life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian national self-awareness.
Category: TV Movie
In a future ruled by a corporate monopoly, a machine capable of fulfilling every human desire transforms society and renders genuine relationships obsolete. As a marginalized young woman is absorbed into the system, she confronts a world increasingly defined by consumption, control, and isolation.
Set in a shadowy realm of “Dark Romanticism,” on an island in a mysterious lake. The inhabitants are a beautiful vampire, a hunchbacked prince, a black magician, the Erl Queen and other creatures, as well as their victims. It is the story of the eerie rituals that take place in the eternal twilight.
A cadet at West Point is subjected to “internal exile”, which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school’s code of honor,
Highbrow Englishman, Lord Brett Sinclair and Bronx-born American fortune seeker, Danny Wilde seem an unlikely pair, but their friendship propels them on some wild and wacky adventures in Robert S. Baker’s LONDON CONSPIRACY.
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan’s son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy’s parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan’s vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn’t understand though why Culler is helping him…
Independent filmmaker Nina Hedenius Det speglar i mitt öga [My Eye Is Reflecting] is a poetic film on the act of seeing and on the details that rarely gets our attention. The film is a collage of diverse scenes depicting life, death, objects and people; a Swedish crayfish party, a classroom, cows in the meadow, the Stockholm subway…
A crossroad country, a nation divided, Iran is on the rise after a century of political upheaval. The nuclear crisis has revealed to the world its goal: to become a world power. For the first time ever, this film will look back over 100 years of Iranian history to the veritable wellsprings of the confrontation between Iran and the Western powers.
