Jānis Ābele
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When You Look At Me (2020)
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...
81 Meters (2022)
Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...
81 Meters (2022)
Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...
81 Meters (2022)
Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super...
Importance of Hydration (2023)
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...
Importance of Hydration (2023)
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...
Six Feet Above (2015)
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...
Six Feet Above (2015)
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...
Blank Page Syndrome (2024)
A documentary essay examining the creative process of creating a book from the writer's first thought to the printing of the typescript.
Blank Page Syndrome (2024)
A documentary essay examining the creative process of creating a book from the writer's first thought to the printing of the typescript.
7 Billion Years Before the End of the World (2018)
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...
Jelgava '94 (2019)
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...
Six Feet Above (2015)
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...
7 Billion Years Before the End of the World (2018)
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...
Short Day (2014)
An ordinary old folks’ home on the Latvian border – one of many, where our parents, grand-parents and other relatives spend their old...
Restart (2014)
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...
The Call of The Void (1970)
Two girls on holiday find a diary in an abandoned boat and set out to investigage a mysterious light on the horizon.
The Call of The Void (1970)
Two girls on holiday find a diary in an abandoned boat and set out to investigage a mysterious light on the horizon.