Ivars Seleckis Movies

In the Latvian countryside at the end of the 19th century, Jānis decides it is time to find a wife—but choosing the right one proves no...

The film "Kino diena" (Cinema Day) is a meeting with two documentary filmmakers and life partners, Ivars and Maija Seleckis, for "the length of a...

Through six very different families, documentary “The Land” shows the variety of the countryside in the 21st century, the contradictions...

This is the 3rd film in almost 30 years about the daily lives of the people living in this small street of Pārdaugava. We first met them in the...

The To Be Continued documentary follows lives of five children throughout their first school year. Kārlis's family is firmly rooted in the...

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

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...

The degradation of a human under the influence of alcohol.

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

One of the first socially relevant poetic films in Latvian cinema history, documenting the lives of female workers at a fiberglass factory –...

Zolitude is inhabited mainly by immigrants. An extremely denational environment, a disorderly everyday life, depressing standard type architecture -...

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

Five children started school in different parts of Latvia in 2015 and we followed them through their first schoolyear in the 2018 documentary...

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...

A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live...

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...

A leisurely message about the people of the Zvejnieks collective farm, created in the style of Riga's poetic documentary cinema.

A Latvian poetic documentary about the town Kuldīga.

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

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