Austra Gulbe

Safety Precautions For Galley Work

Instruction in the animation technique.

Looking-Rhymes

A surreal adventure story centered around four characters that are in a hurry for a game of Ludo and make their journey to a meeting point while fighting the colored tokens of the game that have started transforming into gangsters and attacking them.

The Trumpeter of Tālava

An animation based on the folk tale about the trumpeter of Tālava.

Turtles

An animation film that got the award for best Latvian animation in 1987.

UzPasaka

An animation film by Roze Stiebra and Imants Ziedonis

Fantadrome

Fantadroms is a Latvian children's sci-fi cartoon by production company Studio Dauka. The episodes were released sporadically between 1985 and 1995, and all thirteen of them were released as a collection on DVD in 2006. The hero of the show is a yellow shape-shifting robot called Indrikis XIII, who usually takes the form of a cat. He flies through space, mediating various disputes between the other characters. One recurring dynamic in the show is the love triangle between Indrikis XIII and Receklite - the flying purple cat-octopus with whom he is in love with, and the rat – who is in love with Indrikis. Other recurring characters include a cow, a (human) woman, and an amorphous pink blob. The episode "Salt" won the Lielais Kristaps award for best animation in 1985. The show has no dialogue and drama unfolds through pantomime and expressive noises such as grunts, groans, and laughter, which allows the show to cross language barriers.

Bear of Happiness

A legendary animation film by Roze Stiebra.

A Sister's Journey

An animation film based on Latvian folk songs, significant due to its artistic style which was far removed from the social realism which was the only accepted form of artistic expression in the Soviet Union at the time, and also due to its undertones related to national identity.

Tom Thumb

An animation film based on the play by Anna Brigadere. (Not to be confused with the feature of the same name by Gunārs Piesis!)

Kas tas ir - kolhozs?

A lightly-humoured animation film explaining the origins and the idea behind "kolhoz" in the Soviet system.

Little Hares' Bath

On Saturday night Mother Rabbit takes her children to the bathhouse in the forest, but their happy bathtime ritual is disturbed when a dog dashing through the mist accidentally runs into the bathhouse. The little rabbits scatter in different directions, but in the end everyone falls asleep in their own cradles.

Ūdensbrīnums

The protagonist's adventures tell a story about the water supply system.

Both Ends White, the Mid is Green

A musical tale about the seasons.