Jānis Ābele

1

Kad tu uz mani skaties

Oct 24, 2020

Kad tu uz mani skaties

2020 18 min 1 vues

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 and his stalker – but the stalker never appears. As the deadline approaches, unusual steps must be taken.

Comedy

6

81 metrs

May 13, 2022

81 metrs

2022 14 min 1 vues

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super 8mm, opens the locked doors to picture houses during a Covid-19 lockdown, perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space.

Documentary

6

81 metrs

May 13, 2022

81 metrs

2022 14 min 1 vues

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super 8mm, opens the locked doors to picture houses during a Covid-19 lockdown, perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space.

Documentary

6

81 metrs

May 13, 2022

81 metrs

2022 14 min 1 vues

Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super 8mm, opens the locked doors to picture houses during a Covid-19 lockdown, perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space.

Documentary

1

Stāsts par ūdens nozīmi

Oct 18, 2023

Stāsts par ūdens nozīmi

2023 7 min 1 vues

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 water here takes on the shape of a tear, a trickle through fallen leaves, the volume of a drink left undrunk in a bar, and the beauty of an oasis. Perhaps the unfortunate creature should follow the water, so that his beloved can be reborn?

Fantasy

1

Stāsts par ūdens nozīmi

Oct 18, 2023

Stāsts par ūdens nozīmi

2023 7 min 1 vues

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 water here takes on the shape of a tear, a trickle through fallen leaves, the volume of a drink left undrunk in a bar, and the beauty of an oasis. Perhaps the unfortunate creature should follow the water, so that his beloved can be reborn?

Fantasy

9

Augstāk par zemi

Feb 04, 2015

Augstāk par zemi

2015 27 min 2 vues

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 unavoidably approaches.

Drama

9

Augstāk par zemi

Feb 04, 2015

Augstāk par zemi

2015 27 min 2 vues

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 unavoidably approaches.

Drama

1

Baltās lapas bieds

May 26, 2024

Baltās lapas bieds

2024 8 min 1 vues

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

Documentary

1

Baltās lapas bieds

May 26, 2024

Baltās lapas bieds

2024 8 min 1 vues

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

Documentary

7

7 miljardi gadu pirms pasaules gala

Oct 25, 2018

7 miljardi gadu pirms pasaules gala

2018 78 min 1 vues

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 hairdresser. Also, she looks very much like the image of a girl that Leo has uncovered restoring an altar painting.

Drama

6.6

Jelgava '94

Sep 17, 2019

Jelgava '94

2019 80 min 10 vues

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 hairdresser. Also, she looks very much like the image of a girl that Leo has uncovered restoring an altar painting.

Drama

9

Augstāk par zemi

Feb 04, 2015

Augstāk par zemi

2015 27 min 2 vues

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 unavoidably approaches.

Drama

7

7 miljardi gadu pirms pasaules gala

Oct 25, 2018

7 miljardi gadu pirms pasaules gala

2018 78 min 1 vues

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 hairdresser. Also, she looks very much like the image of a girl that Leo has uncovered restoring an altar painting.

Drama

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Īsā diena

Nov 05, 2014

Īsā diena

2014 26 min 1 vues

An ordinary old folks’ home on the Latvian border – one of many, where our parents, grand-parents and other relatives spend their old age. Theirs is the generation whose prime years co-existed with the Soviet Union, and who were promised: work, give all you can, and we’ll take care when you’re old. The system changed and the reality is different. How to live in this reality, accept the current rules, or live in the past and have regrets. We will touch upon their world, and the dreams and hopes of Vilnis, Imants, Alberts and Elizabete.

Documentary

7

Re starts

Nov 05, 2014

Re starts

2014 26 min 1 vues

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 give up – she wants to clear away the ruins and do what she can. “Enough of looking for guilt, it’s time to find a solution,” she thinks, and takes action.

Documentary

1

Oct 31, 2024

2024 min 1 vues

Forgotten and, perhaps, unheard Latvian myths and ghost stories.