Juris Lisners

On the evening of a total eclipse of the moon, seven close friends gather for a dinner party. One of the friends, a relationship therapist says that she is convinced that many couples would separate if they saw the messages on each other's phones. As the friends debate this contention, they agree - some of them reluctantly - to play a game. They will each place their phone on the table and they will share their messages and calls with the rest of the group.

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In the late 1970s – at a time when the fiercest propaganda against Western culture was being waged throughout the USSR – an ardent rock and roll fan sets up a successful and illegal underground jeans factory in a Latvian psychiatric hospital.

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Bohemian photographer Ivy, burdened by troubled marriage, starts a steamy affair with painter Elias, whose studio is in the same building as hers. Ivy gets swept up in whirlwind of passion, intrigues and lies, but soon her lighthearted affair becomes toxic, painful and tearful addiction. Ivy realizes that this relationship is destroying her and everyone around her. What is love? How is it born and why is it so fragile? Is ecstasis the pinnacle of human relationship?

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Based on the events of the documentary “Chornobyl 2022”. Three young friends go on an extreme trip to the closed zone of Chornobyl, shortly before the Russian invasion. The main character Santa goes to the Chornobyl zone for a video blog and to meet a love interest she recently met on Tinder.

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Struggling against the totalitarian regime of occupied Soviet Latvia, a talented young doctor is stripped of her career, her joy for life, and even her maternal instincts.

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A TV documentary about Latvian actor Uldis Pūcītis, featuring fragments from many of his films ("Swap Treader", "Four White Shirts" and others), as well as stories by people who knew him - actors and directors, former lovers and classmates.

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A cinephile father and his son travel by car through Latvian countryside while trying to sell an antique piece of furniture in order to fund the son’s endeavour in filmmaking. The father dreams about his son’s future in film business, but his son has different plans for the future.

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The creative documentary tells a story about the piano player and musician Oscar Strock who was a well known tango music composer in the 1920s Europe. Nobody knew him – only his music was well known. The life of Strock is like a side-show of everlasting debts, long voyages and wild and unlucky love affairs that find their best interpretation through his tango music. The piano player is a man, who barely arranges his life according to the political and economic circumstances in the world. To earn money, he plays for pubs and cinema theatres in Riga, Berlin and Paris, and for lovers, he writes the most romantic tango music.

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A family drama based on the short story "The Edge of the Abyss" by Raimonds Trasuns.

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The second half of the 19th century. The arrival of land surveyors in a Latvian village for the redistribution of land provoked a scandal...

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The epic film is based on the motifs of Vilis Lācis' novel "The Zītari Family". The tragedy of the Zītari family is a model of Latvian national history. With the beginning of World War I, the patriarchal way of life of Captain Andrejs and his wife Alvīne, their children Kārlis, Ings, Ernests, Elza and Janka changes, with years spent at work and in rare, modest celebrations. Kārlis voluntarily goes to the front, Ingus disappears without a trace on long sea voyages. Not wanting to live in the territory occupied by the German army, the Zītari evacuate to the distant Altai region. The unusually difficult living conditions and the drastically changing political situation of the post-revolutionary period also affect each member of the Zītari family. When the opportunity arises to return to Latvia, Andrejs and Alvīne are no longer among the living. The old sailor's nest has collapsed and the young Zītari are no longer able to preserve their father's house - all the property is stolen.

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Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.

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The path of the main character to the tops of creative work is a chain of victories and losses, in which gains and irretrievable losses alternate.

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A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.

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A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.

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When a journalist from Riga arrives in a rural forest district to investigate a letter from former forester Čukurs warning about the destruction of local woodlands, forest ranger Liepsargs offers him a place to stay. As they look into the situation, Liepsargs finds himself battling both illegal logging and poaching, determined to protect the forest from those exploiting it.

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