Juris Podnieks Studio Movies

Imagine centuries ago several witches huddled around a steaming cauldron, gleefully consigning offensive items to the foul-smelling brew. Maggots, wor...

Today they've become almost mythical, but in 1991 the Barricades were a reality of a national revival. The will of the three Baltic countries - Latvia...

Colourful jungle, dancing dwarves and a pirate girl Vanessa. It is a story of a regular lovely girl, and it makes no difference that she is blind! An...

Latvian Imants Tillers is one of the most important Australian artists of his generation, creator of installations, sculptures, paintings and graphic...

It is a bit funny and a bit sad story about snowmen and…spring. Everyone has got their time and place in this world. Like that rabbit who managed to g...

A film about Alexei Avechkin – a talented, creative dancer who opened up a new page in Latvian ballet history but was taken from life unforgivably ear...

How the Stripped one and the Dotted one were playing in one sandbox and how it all ended.

Sometimes we got lost. And then we have to be found again, so that no one is sad.

Vija Celmiņš – Latvian-American painter and graphic artist, who has gained international recognition thanks to her special signature – reproductions o...

Jānis was an actor – respected and in demand. Dina came to the Liepāja Theatre to become an actress. In the summer of 1992, Jānis fell off the roof of...

Regularly hanging upside-down improves one’s sex life, while loss of consciousness should be used for self-development. These are views expressed by t...

The story of young lives in the young offenders unit in Cēsis, Latvia. A place governed by its own codes and order, where unwritten rules are more pow...

In 1986, Juris Podnieks made his film "Is it easy to be young?". The film became extremely popular and very soon was shown in 85 countries, which was...

Even if you’re born to fly, it's not an easy thing to learn. And not everyone succeeds.

A film about the great 20th century sculptor whose work was inspired by the cubism of the 1920s, and her life story which contains all possible dramas...

Sometimes even those who are used to crawling, get to fly.

A look back at the first years after Latvia regained its independence.

A story about Penguins. About their ‘consolidated’ society and unified thinking. About fashion and the crowd instinct. Yet despite all this, the prota...

A little girl’s father has to go to London. The little girl and her toy rabbit would like to go with him. Of course that’s out of the question. Yet li...