Gints Grūbe Movies

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an...

A film about one of Europe's best young theatre directors, Latvian-born Alvis Hermanis, and his distinctive method, marked by a renunciation of...

Composers are regular people – they drive public transport, do sports, pay their bills. And still – they are very different as they are...

For many years, Saturday market in Skulte has been one of the main events of the week. The roles in the market have been carefully divided among the...

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet...

The story of the German occupation of Latvia and one of Rīga’s major 20th century historical tragedies, which will be remembered by the...

A documentary essay about emptiness in Europe, exploring its causes, life in the emptying places, and attempts to overcome it in five landscapes:...

Līgatne river ferry crossing takes locals, tourists, passers-by and cars from early spring to the fall over river Gauja. It's the last of what...

Five children started school in different parts of Latvia in 2015 and we followed them through their first schoolyear in the 2018 documentary...

In the minds of people, Brussels is no longer a geographical location; it is now a myth-surrounded centre, where decisions are made regarding future...

A boy's body is discovered in a peat field, and a local drunk confesses to a decades-old murder. Policeman Broze reopens the case and is forced to...

Lithuania, 1948. War is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet...

The story of a generation's life and Latvian history, based on the autobiographical accounts of Latvian choral music legends, conductors Imants...

Upon hearing her beloved grandmother is dying, a young woman returns to rural Lithuania, where she must confront a past she’s tried to forget....

“Lustrum” was one of the state administration principles of the Roman Empire – a five-year period after which public administrators...

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoy, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an...

In 1937, silent film star Maria Leiko travels to USSR upon learning of the birth of her granddaughter. But when she discovers the tragic...

Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old Jewish...

The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is...

Since Latvia regained independence in 1991, only a small number of all those who emigrated during the 1940s returned, though many of them had been...