Film Programme

Amazonmania

Dir. Nathan Grossman • 2026 • 93 min • Sweden, Denmark, France • 16+

In 1996, a Swedish journalist together with an international expedition group heads to the Amazon rainforest to meet the Korubu tribe – a group of indigenous peoples isolated from the modern world. The expedition’s footage becomes a global sensation. Almost thirty years later director Nathan Grossman travels to the Amazon jungle to once again meet […]

Thursday 10 Sep 18:00 Thursday 10 Sep 21:00 Sunday 13 Sep 13:00

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Becoming Roosi

Dir. Margit Lillak • 2025 • 84 min • Estonia, Germany • 12+

For 10 years the director documented Roosi’s coming-of-age – from a childhood in a remote eco-community to climate advocacy protests in the city. Questions about parental choices alternate with searching for identity, personal challenges, creative experiments and generational responsibility in combating devastating climate change. The film is an emotionally subtle story about anxiety in the […]

Tuesday 8 Sep 13:00 Wednesday 9 Sep 13:30 Thursday 10 Sep 13:30

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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

Dir. Alex Gibney • 2026 • 107 min • USA • 16+

At the centre of the film is the unbreakable strength to continue creating, despite the death threats. On August 12, 2022, writer Salman Rushdie climbed onstage in NY state to talk about the USA as a safe haven for writers living in exile. After a few seconds an attacker stabbed the writer 15 times. Rushdie […]

Wednesday 9 Sep 20:30 Sunday 13 Sep 15:00

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Little Sinner

Dir. Daro Hansen, Thomas Papapetros • 2026 • 90 min • Denmark • 16+

How to continue living and doing good when the world seems to be going crazy? Daro Hansen’s very personal journey through space and time takes her from Syria to Denmark, Lebanon and Greece. A personal video archive accumulated over the course of twenty years becomes a unique memory card – from first love and forced […]

Saturday 12 Sep 20:30 Sunday 13 Sep 17:30

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My Family and Other Clowns

Dir. Heilika Pikkov, Liina Särkinen • 2025 • 84 min • Estonia • 12+

Sometimes we laugh the loudest when we least expect it. For more than 25 years Estonian clowns Piip and Tuut have entertained children and families the world over, but daily life is not always as fun as performing under stage lights. While Piip and Tuut, exhausted, are once again packing for travel in a one-room […]

Tuesday 8 Sep 17:00 Wednesday 9 Sep 13:00 Wednesday 9 Sep 18:00 Saturday 12 Sep 13:00

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Techplomacy

Dir. Susanne Kovács • 2026 • 93 min • Denmark • 12+

The digital environment is changing at an almost uncontrollable pace, and democratic institutions and regulations can’t keep up. Who will determine what sort of technology will shape our future – democratic values or corporate interests? Enterprising Dane, Anne Marie Entoft Meldgaard, is one of the first international ambassadors in the field of technology. With Nordic directness […]

Tuesday 8 Sep 19:00 Thursday 10 Sep 18:00 Friday 11 Sep 20:30

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The Beauty of Errors

Dir. Jukka Kärkkäinen • 2026 • 94 min • Finland • 16+

When children grow up their parents have to change too. When Tero’s son Henri falls in love, the father feels betrayed. A sharp, poignant and unexpectedly upbeat story about a family where love is presented through awkward gestures, glances and sighs. The clash between father and son reveals a generational model of inherited masculinity – […]

Friday 11 Sep 18:00 Saturday 12 Sep 15:00

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The Queen and the Smokehouse

Dir. Iga Lis • 2025 • 65 min • Poland • 12+

During the summer Łeba is one of the most popular resort towns in Poland, welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors. At the centre of the film is Miecia – proprietor of Łeba’s legendary fish smokehouse, whom the locals refer to as Queen of the town. Over the course of more than 40 years of working, […]

8–13 Sep filmas.lv

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To Die to Live

Dir. Yuliia Hontaruk • 2026 • 120 min • Ukraine, Latvia, Slovakia • 16+

In 2014 when Russia began its occupation of Crimea, three Ukrainian boys – Shakhta, Dancer and Potter – volunteered to fight. After the full-scale invasion in the spring of 2022, they once again returned to the front. The director allows us in close-up to get to know this generation of Ukrainians whose lives are determined […]

Tuesday 8 Sep 18:00 Saturday 12 Sep 17:30

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Ukrainian Sheriffs

Dir. Roman Bondarchuk • 2015 • 85 min • Ukraine, Latvia, Germany • 16+

In the remote Ukrainian village of Stara Zburyivka where official law enforcement rarely visits, the head of the village has found an effective way to combat disorder. He has chosen and appointed two men – the smartest one and the strongest one – as sheriffs. Bearing shiny badges and driving a rickety Zhiguli, this law […]

8–13 Sep filmas.lv Saturday 12 Sep 13:00

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Under the Red Light

Dir. Joris Skudra • 2025 • 73 min • Lithuania • 12+

Romualdas Požerskis is one of Lithuania’s most renowned photographers. During the Soviet occupation, when it was forbidden to photograph the sea, religion and nakedness, Požerskis documented the yearning for freedom by Lithuanian youth. Tens of thousands of captured moments, a unique perspective, which at the time was prohibited from being displayed. Secretly listening to American […]

8–13 Sep filmas.lv

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Where Everything Disappears

Dir. Oleksandr Tkachenko • 2026 • 88 min • France, Ukraine • 16+

Ukrainian cinematographer and pacifist Dmytro Dokunov founds an eco-village in a picturesque corner of Ukraine’s mountains. Freely, joyfully and creatively these children of nature tend their homes and gardens, while also meditating, swimming in paradise-like waterfalls and loving life in a way that is only possible with youthful maximalism. However, Dmytro receives a conscription notice […]

8–13 Sep filmas.lv

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