Among the supported projects there are the debut feature Sisters / Māsas by Linda Olte, produced by Fenixfilm, about two sisters who had grown up in an orphanage; Ināra Kolmane’s film Soviet Milk / Mātes piens produced by Deviņi, based on a novel by Latvian writer Nora Ikstena, which has been translated into many languages; and the third film Barbarians / Barbari by Juris Kursietis, produced by White Picture.

Documentary films cover a wide range of topics, focusing on issues of art - filmmaker Juris Podnieks A Man and His Time / Podnieks par Podnieku by Anna Viduleja at Jura Podnieka studija, the society - Nord Express by Kārlis Lesiņš at Mistrus Media, on the railway project connecting Baltic countries, and religion - Fluctuations / Sieviete un Dievs, on women’s resistance to the laws of the contemporary Church, directed by Kristīne Briede at Ruck Art Foundation. Latvian animation film director Roze Stiebra received funding for her next full-length film Rule of the Heart / Sirds likums produced by Lokomotīve.

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