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Latvia’s Mellow Mud (Es esmu šeit) has won the Crystal Bear for Best Film in the Generation 14plus strand of the Berlin Film Festival

Latvia’s Mellow Mud (Es esmu šeit) has won the Crystal Bear for Best Film in the Generation 14plus strand of the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 11-21), as voted by the ‘youth jury’. The feature debut of Latvian director Renārs Vimba (a graduate of the Latvian Academy of Culture), received its world premiere in the youth strand of the Berlinale and centres on a 17-year-old girl and her little brother who keep the death of their grandmother secret in an attempt not to lose their home.

International Academic Conference "Baltic Sea Region Documentary Cinema: an Aesthetic and Social Phenomenon"

Centre for Scientific Research of Latvian Academy of Culture and Riga Film Museum is organizing an International Academic Conference Baltic Sea Region Documentary Cinema: an Aesthetic and Social Phenomenon. The conference will be held on 14th-16th April, 2016, at the Department of Theatre and Audiovisual Art of Latvian Academy of Culture. The aim of the conference is to open up a broad research field of the documentary cinema from Baltic Sea Region countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany), studying the main movements and authors, doing comparative analysis of various national cinemas, and other topics.

SKS British Club celebrates Christmas traditions

A fabulous experience! A true festive pre-Christmas atmosphere with self-made Christmas decorations, music and community singing. A memorable event with new cross-cultural info about British Christmas traditions, both past and present. The visual presentation was coupled with student quiz team work, competing for correct answers and more tangerines. Involvement and chatty participation of all students and teachers of English created a friendly aura and a feel of an extended family. The British Club wishes A Merry Christmas to all Academy!

International scientific conference "Cultural crosspoints IX"

Riga, Latvian Academy of Culture, November 12 – 14, 2015. The aim of the Latvian Academy of Culture Research Centre is to promote development in the Humanities and the Social Sciences as well as to realise research projects on issues related to the fields of culture and the arts of international topicality and significance for Latvia. Pursuant to this mission, the Research Centre organises the annual international scientific conference “Cultural Crosspoints”. In 2015, the conference “Cultural Crosspoints” will be held for the ninth time.

September in Zemgale

On September 12 recently arrived Erasmus students and their Latvian buddies visited one of the regions of Latvia - Zemgale. On the borders of Selonia and Semigallia provinces stands the richest miller’s homestead and farm in the whole land: ‘’Speltes’’ or ‘’Ausekļa dzirnavas’’ (“dzirnavas” – mills) students visited first. It boasts old-fashioned technical equipment, machinery, countless household items from the 19th century and different epochs of the 21st century. Rows of old tractors, including most popular Soviet kolkhoz caterpillar, sewing, threshing, forging equipment, all in working condition and is used time to time during spring and autumn festivals.