Gatis Grīnbergs

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Filmography

2018

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. Documentary 2018 combines these stories into a unique poetic vision based on analogy with the documentary 235 000 000, a classic of the Riga school of poetic documentary cinema. This film is an attempt to make sure whether the codes of the poetic cinema are still relevant and accessible today.

8.0

Mutiny

Based on true events, a historical drama about one man's struggle against the authorities that leads to a mutiny on a Soviet warship.

6.2

The Pit

Markuss must adapt to a new life living with his granny in the countryside. After Emīlija – a neighbor’s daughter – throws some contemptuous remarks about the boy’s father, the boy decides to teach her a cruel lesson. This has severely negative consequences which resonate throughout the village. The only person Markuss can relate to is an old sailor living in the nearby woods. They inspire each other and keep each other’s secrets. It is only through an accidental turn of events that Emīlija’s mother’s intended sanctions against Markuss and the boy’s reputation in the eyes of the inhabitants of the village radically change.

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Swingers 2

Swingers 2 brings back familiar faces - Indrek, Elen, Andrus, and Tiina - who now find themselves tangled up in a whole new set of relationship complications.

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Archie & Nellie, or How to Improve the Quality of Your Life and Live up to 100 Years

A comedy in six series about two lonely seniors, Archie and Nellie, who try to keep finding new challenges and pleasures in life.

N/A

Stay Negative

A girls' volleyball team and a boys' orchestra get caught out by the pandemic and are forced to self-isolate together in a country house in the middle of nowhere.

5.5

The Gardener

The old gardener works all day in harmony with nature’s rhythms and the wisdom of the ancient Latvians. His happiness and fulfillment is a garden that no longer belongs to him, but he feels like it does due to his large contribution to it. He speaks to the garden, and it responds, giving him shelter and a rich harvest. Autumn arrives and there is much work, more than the gardener can handle. The young homeowners, desiring to make the gardener’s life easier, hire a new gardener. The old gardener’s love of the garden and his unwillingness to share it with anyone else leads him to make an inevitable decision to stay in the garden of his family forever. This is a poetically symbolic story about disappearing time, the land and modern reality.

2.0

Manny

Journey of a woman on a writer's retreat, struggling with her identity as a closet homosexual. Her life unfolds through three love interests, one real, one a figment of her imagination and the third virtual - man, woman and AI.

N/A

Tumšā robeža

A historical thriller about Latvia in 1939 - a year before the Russian occupation.

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Actress in d'Ark

Short documentary fiction about the passion of an actress.

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Under the Upturned Moon

“Under the Upturned Moon” is a documentary that tells an outstandingly gripping story of two journalists investigating the depths of Islamic community in a country as small and seemingly insignificant as Latvia.

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Riga-2041

Three unrelated sci-fi stories that depict people’s search for happiness.

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Castratus the Boar

Small town resident Valters breeds his pigs and sings in the local church choir. His childhood secret however, prevents him from integrating in the community. After the death of his father he tries to establish contact with Aija. This is not the beginning of an ordinary young couple’s love story.

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Seekers

This film probes the activities of the bezvests.lv NGO that looks for missing persons and instructs others on how to find them. Since they started in 2009, they’ve helped find more than 90 people who had gone missing. It follows volunteers during training and on a search mission – theirs is a nerve-wracking task as in many cases they only locate the expired body of the missing person.

7.5

Boom!

After a skateboarding accident, Hugo (13) develops magical superpowers. He quickly becomes the coolest kid in school but now has to choose between status and friendship.

3.6

Nothing Strange About It

Suus loves her husband Mats but knows very well that the fire in her marriage has been extinguished for a while. To revive the passion, she signs them up for a swinger's app. Mats agree, unaware of what he was being asked to do.

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Bez vecuma ierobežojuma

A documentary revealing society's perceptions of old age.

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Sugarcane, Coati and Monowheel

Nearly everybody has been to the circus to laugh about clowns, be afraid of the lions and to eat sugar cane. However, can anyone imagine that circus artists reside right there in the circus building - above the arena in the second floor hotel rooms - where they also prepare meals, do their laundry and try out their magic tricks? For over 125 years, despite the discomfort of non-renovated premises and ubiquitous animal odor, local and foreign circus artists follow their routine to create the circus miracle. Sugarcane, Coati and Monowheel is a film about those who dwell in Riga Circus and about what happens outside the arena before and after meeting audience under the circus dome.

8.3

The Garages

The closed microcosm of garage co-ops, where the socio-economic environment has blended with personal space, provides a step back in time. Men are still boys, but their tinkering is both the trade and hobby of individual entrepreneurs, since self-exploitation as leisure time activity is a time capsule where neoliberalism has enclosed the postindustrial proletariat. Inventors, geniuses, crazy scientists, and men with golden hands - you will find them in garages.

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