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As her family is falling apart, twenty-year-old Laine gets introduced to Riga's underground raves where she experiences love and slowly begins to lose connection with reality.

Just when teenage sisters and orphanage residents Anastasia and Diana learn that an American family is ready to adopt them, their biological mother returns.

A 78-year-old Indian woman in New York is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been going to at least one play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.

After two and a half years in captivity, Imad, his little brother Idan, and their mother Ghazala are released into a displaced persons' camp in Kurdistan. Healing from the trauma is hard for all of them, but it seems Imad is having a particularly tough time. Not yet five, he has already spent over half his life enduring terror, abuse, and "training" meant to make him heartless. Speaking only Arabic, he cannot communicate with his family, and the only means of expression at his disposal is violence. He hits and spits, and his only game is pretending to be an ISIS fighter who shoots, blows things up, and kills. This poignant film follows him as he takes hesitant steps on the hard road to recovery, guided and held by his mother, his grandmother, and an incredibly supportive therapist.

A runaway bride, a young peasant, mysterious illusionists and a manic investigator become entwined in a murderous affair at a Baltic German baron's manor.

In three different parts of the world, three young Latvians attempt to find themselves through nomadic explorations, questioning the different aspects of what it means to be young in the contemporary uncertain world.

This is an intimate and personal story about women who were supposed to be the children of complete and total socialism, about the environment they grew up in, their youth and their life now. Teacher Lapaine's class reunion happens every year on March 21. This year is no different. Just like 25 years ago, when director Una Celma first documented her classmates in a film under the same title. The traditional table is set with beverages, cakes and candy, and the yearly photo taken. Nowadays, they are mothers, aunts and grandmothers.

Is it possible to live in such a way that everyone is happy with you? Diana, who comes from the highest strata of society, tries to adapt her life so it seems right to others. For her mother, girlfriend, society, husband. Trying to maintain status in society and trying to hide her husband's addiction, Diana's relationship with her daughter becomes traumatic. What is most important, society or a relationship with a daughter? What will Diana choose? Will you realize someone else's idea of your life?

Sixteen year old student Janis has been given an interesting home work assignment - to draw his family tree and tell about it. The film follows the story of the Latvian boy's family tree.

Several inhabitants of a nursing home on the Latvian border reflect on their lives, dreams and hopes.