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Latvian documentary filmmaker Ivars Seleckis (1934) is one of the founders of the legendary Riga school of poetic documentary film. Seleckis started his career in film in 1958 as assistant cameraman at the Riga Film Studio. In 1966, he graduated from the Moscow Film Institute as a professional cinematographer and made his debut as a documentary director in 1968. A large part of Ivars Seleckis’ filmography belongs to the canon of Latvian film history, including his Crossroad Street (1988), winner of three of the world’s most prestigious documentary awards. Now in his eighties, Seleckis is still busy making new films ‒ despite having received the Lifetime Contribution Award of Lielais Kristaps National Film Festival as he was marking his 80th birthday.
Most Popular Ivars Seleckis Trailers
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04 June 1973
A documentary about farmers in the Latvian countryside.
01 January 1978
A film about a woman's role in the society.
04 October 2022
Through six very different families, documentary “The Land” shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions of countryside living as well as illusions about farmer’s life.
01 January 1976
The degradation of a human under the influence of alcohol.
01 January 1963
While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors, flooded fields.
01 September 2006
Uldis Brauns' conversation with Ivars Seleckis about films and time.
24 October 1963
A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live alongside the optimism of new construction and the smiling faces of the new generation.
01 January 1965
Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour of the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Latvia.
24 August 1987
Joyful, humorous and slightly ironic look on the daily life in Soviet Latvia in 1987.
15 April 2018
The To Be Continued documentary follows lives of five children throughout their first school year. Kārlis's family is firmly rooted in the Latvian countryside.
01 January 1985
The composer Raimonds Pauls, the artist of the USSR People's Stage, shares his thoughts on life and work.
01 July 2018
At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them.
01 January 2001
She is young and beautiful. But a film portrait is more grateful to the life story of a person whose greatest works are already behind them.
13 July 1975
On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car.
17 June 1999
Ten years have passed since we made the film “Crossroad Street”, about a small street in the suburbs of the city of Riga.
22 September 2024
Five children started school in different parts of Latvia in 2015 and we followed them through their first schoolyear in the 2018 documentary “To be continued”.
03 September 2014
Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old Jewish Cemetery), Ivars Seleckis (On Ķīpsala), Audrius Stonys (Riga Boats), Jaak Kilmi (Littering Prohibited!), Jon Bang Karlsen (Cats in Riga), Rainer Komers (Daugava Delta), and Bettina Henkel (Theatre Street 6).
01 January 1971
Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.
15 April 1988
Crossroad Street is a small street just 800 metres long on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga.
01 June 1989
In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Ivars Seleckis, and the ballerina Natalya Makarova, among others.
21 March 1973
Reflections on human’s relationship with horses throughout the ages and their depiction in art are shown in parallel to the draft horse competition.
01 January 1984
The film tells the story of writer Regīna Ezera. The writer swims in a lake, shops at the market, writes on a typewriter at home, and writes the book "Nostalgia.
04 May 2013
This is the 3rd film in almost 30 years about the daily lives of the people living in this small street of Pārdaugava.
12 April 1994
A documentary about farmers in Latvian countryside.
01 September 1969
A leisurely message about the people of the Zvejnieks collective farm, created in the style of Riga's poetic documentary cinema.
01 January 1990
Zolitude is inhabited mainly by immigrants. An extremely denational environment, a disorderly everyday life, depressing standard type architecture - these are the problems faced by the film's characters.
01 January 1985
Latvia from a bird's eye view
10 August 1970
One of the first socially relevant poetic films in Latvian cinema history, documenting the lives of female workers at a fiberglass factory – their work, leisure, dreams, hopes, and also the problems caused by the "influx" of young women into the small town after the factory was built.
01 February 1966
A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.
22 September 2014
The film "Kino diena" (Cinema Day) is a meeting with two documentary filmmakers and life partners, Ivars and Maija Seleckis, for "the length of a single film screening," reviewing the films they have made together and attempting to articulate the phenomenon of the Riga documentary film school and the essence of the documentary filmmaker's profession, which is difficult to express in words.
01 January 1983
A sequel-of-sorts to "Sieviete, kuru gaida?", where the authors focussed on the role of a woman in society.
10 September 2007
The story of rural people in 2004 - at the time when Latvia joined the European Union. A thorough study of the situation in rural Latvia over the course of the last thirty years, where the conflict between the familiar and the new, and desire and opportunity has fostered creative thinking in farmers looking to be masters of their own land.
29 August 1960
A protopoetic short about Riga and the people of Riga in their twenties.
01 January 1969
Newsreel edition with stories about archery competition and marathons in running, cycling and car sports, using the form of personal narrative behind the scenes.
