Jānis Ābele Movies

A problem that every film director has faced – how do you film something that does not exist? A director is making a documentary about an actor...

Film takes us deep inside the world of Latvian teenagers in 90s: combining the intimate diary of a teenager Jānis trying to find himself by...

A documentary essay examining the creative process of creating a book from the writer's first thought to the printing of the typescript.

The young Jekabs, Linda and Rihards enjoy the spring full of romance and bohemian way of life. The apple-trees are in blossom in Riga and the war...

Two twenty-somethings from Latvia meet in the south of France. Leo studies restoration, Anna has lived in Marseille for some time and works as a...

A melancholic view facing a mirror of water. It deceives the film’s protagonist, who wallows in longing and memories of his lost lover. The...

An ordinary old folks’ home on the Latvian border – one of many, where our parents, grand-parents and other relatives spend their old...

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...

The heroine is a widow and a fiancé who wants to begin a new and happy life. Conflicts in her family’s past prevent it, but she does not...