Also this year will be the traditional May 4th Latvian Film Marathon / Day
In both marathon formats this year, the thread will be the phenomenon of world -famous – Latvian animation -, portal Movies.lv will look back at the 1990s when the Declaration of Independence was adopted but in the cinema Splendid Palace Also, film premieres and anniversaries, cinema work on Latvian cultural personalities, patriotic moods and artistic challenges.
The largest section on May 4 in the Latvian Film Marathon is screenings in the cinema Splendid Palace – Eight screenings in two cinemas and an open -air screen at the end of the evening. The festival program will begin at. 13.00 in the Great Hall, where the first, as always, will be an animated session for children – studies Animation brigade the latest puppet movie Mushroom life (Director Evalds Lācis) and a selection of films from different directors – about cats! The Great Hall of the Cinema will also be screened in the Patriotic Festive atmosphere a very fitting documentary More like a dance – The story of director Paul Dombrovskis about Canadian Latvian dance groups Daugaviņa The way to the Song and Dance Celebration in Latvia. The evening premiere this year will be the documentary of director Dzintra Geka Was born in Siberia. Martin Wilson, But the program will be concluded by a reminder that May is also the month of Jura Kulakov, offering the audience’s documentary by Director Elizabeth Gricmane Works of art occur in torment.
Cinema Splendid Palace Four sessions are planned in the small hall. 14.00, and the first part of the program will encourage reflection on what it means to be a young person today and 40 years ago, showing director Armand Zach’s feature film Forever young (2025) and Juris Podnieks (1950-1992) world-famous movie Is it easy to be young? (1986). The year 2025 has been announced the year of Juris Podnieks, as the outstanding director is expected to anniversary in December, so the film screening will be more information on the anniversary of the anniversary and a conversation about the legendary film. The next session in the small hall will also be linked to the anniversary – 25 years mark on Aigars Graubas and producer Andrejs Eke’s feature film Baiga summer (2001), besides the session in the cinema Splendid Palace An exhibition dedicated to the film artists, a unique tandem in Latvian cinema history – will be opened – Martins Milbret (1965-2019) and Neil Matisse (1969-2014). The small hall program will be completed by one of the most challenging new films this year – the black comedy of director Marc Lac Affected – But in the traditional Latvian Film Marathon Open Air Session, there will be an opportunity to appreciate how director Gints Zilbalodis started his way in animation – his first full -length film in the program Away (2019) and short films (2012-2015).
On the NCC portal Movies.lv The festival program will consist of two themed blocks – Latvian animation (about cats!) In different years and the history of Latvia in cinema magazines in 1990, during the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Detailed information on the program will follow soon.
