Ivars Zviedris Trailers
Faithful unto Death TrailerPalīdzības piemineklis TrailerGravediggers Trailer
Faithful unto Death TrailerPalīdzības piemineklis TrailerGravediggers Trailer
Total trailers found: 32
26 September 2005
A struggling actress, a teacher, a former seaman, a policeman and a veterinarian all have a common line of work – conducting funerals.
06 July 2007
Smiles belong only to humans. Perhaps some animals can smile, but I'm not sure about that. A smile is a sign of a warm heart, said the Dalai Lama when he met with Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga.
06 June 2006
Sigurds operates a hundred-year-old lift in a large hospital in Riga, absorbing the sounds of daily hospital life while between floors.
30 April 2005
The film is a mirror image of the choir Kamēr... (While...), which the viewer sees through the white dresses of the girls in the choir, through the beads of sweat on the conductor's nose, through close-ups of the choir members at moments when the musical ecstasy reaches its climax.
14 June 2007
Latvians have always fought under foreign flags, but have always wanted to return to their homeland.
05 March 2024
They prepare the resting place for us all. They do their work by standing by the side of people when they are in grief, and are the last hands to touch the grave towel that lowers the deceased a meter and a half below the ground.
27 February 2022
The film begins with closing of the oldest prison in Latvia – the Brasa Prison was built in 1905 and cannot ensure normal functioning.
09 November 2019
Latvian children born in Ireland are a part of the nation that dreams in English, and marks a peculiar page of recent Latvian history.
19 August 2007
A novella about Riga, composed of songs from the rooftops of Riga, sung by the girls of the Riga Dome School choir, recited by Riga residents, chance encounters with foreigners, cyclists and pedestrians, tram drivers and lovers.
21 November 2017
They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory.
04 May 2022
The world is being ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic and a state of emergency has been declared in Latvia.
03 November 2015
Alekss arrives at the Murjāņi sports school to become a champion. He’s introduced to the ironclad daily routine, which starts at 7 AM and ends at 8 PM, with practices twice a day and the rest of the time filled with lessons, exams and homework, just like at any other school.
01 January 2004
A documentary about the almost mythical "Latvian gold" - where it comes from and what's being done with it.
16 November 2013
A group of children from the capital city of Riga arrive in the small border village of Ipiķi. The townsfolk immediately know that "they aren’t locals, they’re from the capital.
10 November 2022
The film focuses on a bizarre state of affairs in the northern city of Valmiera where the corpse of a man has lain for nine years because of complex and contradictory communications between the relatives and various responsible institutions.
30 April 2004
It's Latvia on the 20th of September, 2003 - the day of the referendum about joining the European Union.
24 November 2020
An attempt to understand the people chanting "Atlaist Saeimu!" (Sack the parliament!) year after year.
01 January 2014
A young boy likes to play anywhere and anytime, with anything that is handy. A poetess plays with words, a composer with sound, and a filmmaker with images, the result of which is a cinematic poem that motivates the viewer to remember his Homo Ludens.
24 July 2010
Latvians think through mud and view the world through a “muddy” filter. Where does the mud come from, and why does it invariably remain: in this country, this language, and in our souls? Mud doesn’t just appear from tears falling upon dry earth.
01 October 2003
The Latvian Song festival captured from an unusual angle - literally and figuratively. Faces and legs of singers, listeners and dancers, close-ups of details and moods.
29 September 2005
In the godforsaken land on both sides of the Latvian-Estonian border people are awaiting "the coming of Europe" in candlelight with no electricity.
04 December 2024
Documentarian Ivars Zviedris began filming Faithful unto Death after meeting a woman who unknowingly carried a surgeon's tool in her abdomen for 27 years, following an appendectomy.
15 October 2002
Rūjiena is the northernmost town in Latvia. Life here flows slowly, with a unique, flowing spirit of sincerity, love, and a certain sense of civic pride.
13 November 2024
The monument to help is a small shop in the center of Alūksne – a social, cultural, and human place in the small city of Malēnija, where everyone knows, loves, and hates each other.
01 November 2011
It’s discovered by chance that legendary Finnish film director Teuvo Tulio came from a remote village in Latvia near the Russian border.
29 September 2009
People escaping from home. Escaping to a better life. Escaping from themselves to a globalized world.
12 November 2017
The documentary “Residents” probes problems in Latvia in general and Latvia’s medicine in particular with the story of two energetic young interns, Kārlis and Laura.
01 December 2017
They fell trees in the forest, work in brigades and live in trailers or empty apartments far from home.
12 April 2012
Inta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker.
01 January 2019
During Latvia’s centennial year, 15 filmmakers created each his own film portrait of a person living in Latvia on the background of centenary events.
01 December 2019
An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border.