Vfs Films Movies

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...

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

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...

In 2014, Shakhta, Dancer, and Potter volunteered for the army in order to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in eastern Ukraine. Although the...

The 20th century dreamt of utopia but instead experienced tragedies. This film looks at San Francisco-based Latvian artist and playwright Raimonds...

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...

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,...

In this allegory about paradise lost, Ildze yearns to find peace and fulfilment by moving from the city to the countryside. However, her thoughts are...

A person’s face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as...

There is a popular Latvian folksong which begins with the phrase "I was singing out high on a mountain". The irony of it is that according to...

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

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

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...

Direct and meticulous observation of interpersonal relations is a classic subject in documentary films. In this film the title of which alludes to...

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...

A laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and examined from within its most intimate...

Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst semi-wild nature, closer to birds and pond fish than to humans.

The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia -...

Victor (31) has a rare form of cancer in an advanced stage; moreover, his wife is about to divorce him. Trapped in the antechamber of death and with...