Browse 33 movies from Telefilma-Rīga
An animation film based on a poem by Vitauts Ļaudēns.
Jan 1974
On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.
Jan 1979
Dilli Dalli is an adventurous boy who can bring his toys to life. Now, however, he needs to meet his opponent - the evil Perpendicular, who makes everything that's living to disappear. Dilli Dalli goes to the kingdom of the evil Perpendicular to save his toys he brought to life.
An animation film for kids teaching them to love and protect nature. Based on the story "Čigānmeitēns Ringla".
Jan 1973
The main character of the film is a charming dog. All his friends asked him to catch the wind, as it was touching everyone, and that's where it all began...
Jan 1978
A young man’s heart is full of passion and warmth. He decides to leave his father’s home to venture into the world. By chance, he overhears a conversation between a giant and the daughter of the sun, which reveals to him the legend of the Northern Maiden. He then chooses to set out to sea in search of this fabled being. Based on a story by Kārlis Skalbe.
Jan 1980
An animation film based on the play by Anna Brigadere.
Jan 1982
Jan 1976
Jan 1975
The calamities of a turtle family which is driven out of its natural environment. European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) are the only species of turtles living in Latvia and they are endangered.
Jun 1987
A story about the adventures of a helicopter girl named Hela.
Jan 1970
The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.
A variety of animals go on a musical adventure though the countryside.
Jan 1983
Three animated songs for the youngest viewers, based on the classics of Latvian children's literature. Poems The Golden Sieve, The Cloud Boy and the Cloud Girl, and The Sun and the Moon by Rainis tell children in poetic images "how things happen in the sky", where the goddess of fate Laima scatters stars like diamond seeds, Cloud Children annoy Father Thunder by swinging and overturn the big rain bowl, but the beautiful Daughter of the Sun falls in love with the stately Moon Boy.
The 20th Latvian Song and Dance Festival was the first in which compatriots from all corners of the world gathered in a free Latvia, including those who had gone into exile in the West and those who had been forcibly deported to Siberia. Director Dzintra Geka also brings together those who were unable to return to their homeland – footage for the film was shot in Sweden, at the 6th European Latvian Song Festival in Norrköping, where Latvian Minister of Justice Laila Freivalde, who is of Latvian descent, marches alongside her compatriots, and in Siberia, in the village of Lejas Bulāna, where Latvian women sing "...because this is Latvia, this is Bulāna...". The older generation of Canadian Latvians also dance at the festival with the Dardedze dance group from Toronto, while Mārtiņš Brauns prepares his song Saule, Pērkons, Daugava (Sun, Thunder, Daugava) for the choir.
Sep 1991
A musical tale about the seasons.
Jan 1977
A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.
Jan 1985
An animation film based on a story by Imants Ziedonis about the relationship between a human and nature.
A little boy sees a thirsty camel in his picture book and imagines bringing him a rain cloud.
Jan 1969
Roze Stiebra's animation film based on Latvian folktales.