Ivars Seleckis Movies

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...

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

A protopoetic short about Riga and the people of Riga in their twenties.

On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The...

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.

Ten years have passed since we made the film “Crossroad Street”, about a small street in the suburbs of the city of Riga. Now we’ve...

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

Filmmakers of Riga poetic documentary school, Freimanis and Seleckis, were designated as the creative core for this documentary to be shot in honour...

Crossroad Street is a small street just 800 metres long on the outskirts of the Latvian capital, Riga. Its various inhabitants, each with his or her...

A sequel-of-sorts to "Sieviete, kuru gaida?", where the authors focussed on the role of a woman in society. Now their turning their focus on men.

Reflections on human’s relationship with horses throughout the ages and their depiction in art are shown in parallel to the draft horse...

A documentary about farmers in Latvian countryside.

The composer Raimonds Pauls, the artist of the USSR People's Stage, shares his thoughts on life and work. The authors focus on the difficult daily...

Uldis Brauns' conversation with Ivars Seleckis about films and time.

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors,...

The story of rural people in 2004 - at the time when Latvia joined the European Union. A thorough study of the situation in rural Latvia over the...

Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.