Vfs Films Movies

The director finds herself torn between her newfound role as a mother and the loss of her own place as a daughter while caring for her dying mother,...

In the early 1980’s two hundred pairs of common terns (Sterna hirundo) were forced to abandon their last natural nesting place on a river...

The narrow, sandy strip of the seashore is a neutral zone that belongs equally to the sea and the mainland. This zone possesses an unusual...

In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing...

Those of us who fly in airplanes probably don’t think about those who fly through Riga Airport on their own wings. But on any given day, up to...

In 1956, Roberto Rossellini was in the throes of a personal and artistic crisis. His recent films with Ingrid Bergman had flopped, their marriage was...

Captured by Borders is a film about travelling the world in old and transformed fire trucks. They have been in more than 100 countries, on five...

Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s...

A reindeer herdsman’s life is as gently monotonous as the tundra itself. It flows in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one...

When the world was younger, ships, explorers and merchants carried not only foreign goods, but also stories. Those stories drew a map of the world...

After the fall of the Soviet Union large numbers of immigrants from the East stayed in Latvia for good, Latvians simply call them...

New performers have recently moved into the 130-year-old building of the Riga Circus. Having built a stage in the stables, actors Ance, Āris,...

The world seen through the eyes of children. The action takes place in Karosta, the former military port of Liepaja city – however, it is not...

“TESA MAN” is a music film – a poetic exploration of the relationship between collective creativity and the natural world. The film...

A local guide is asked to lead a group of influencers along the river of a remote valley. As they get deeper into the wilderness, their venture takes...

An artist, a zoologist, a nature scholar, and a sheep farmer working in the IT sector, who also happens to be an astronomy enthusiast, all view the...

The documentary film Laidi tells the story of the last year of Laidi Primary school in Laidi Manor, southwestern Latvia. Ieva Epnere came to Laidi in...

Five blonde women confirm and break stereotypes about blondes and their men. They love, wait, annoy, challenge, surprise – they live next to us...

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

An observational reflection on the body and existing in one’s social as well as physical “skin”. “To break out of their...