Before the Light (2023) — Three female theologians fight for the right to be ordained as Protestant pastors, a possibility Latvia has denied women since its National Awakening and independence in the early 1990s.
Documentary, 75 min, Rucka, Balticbalkan Productions, director
Latvian Chronicles No.11 (2018) — While Latvia welcomes the Pope amid the country's highest theological circles, two women denied ordination serve at the soup kitchen.
Documentary, 13 min, VFS Films, director
Bridges of Time (2018) — Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
Documentary, 82 min., VFS Films (LV, Studio Nominum (LT), Vesilind (EE), director (co-director Audrius Stonys)
Close, Far - in the Right Place (2014) — A Latvian repatriate family from Moscow, finding an elegant path back into Latvian society.
Documentary, 26 min, Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, director & camera
There are more of us (2011) — Three newcomers carve their own way into Latvian society.
Documentary, 2011, 26 min, Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, director & camera
Eurowatching (2007) — Six shorts filmed in Karosta, a former Soviet military base, as it encounters "Europe" on the eve of EU accession.
Series of short documentaries, 6 x 3 min, Culture & Information Centre K@2, producer, director & camera
Mother Connected (2001) — On her honeymoon, Edīte is haunted by guilt and strange signs from the mother she long ago drifted from — until her mother appears in the flesh.
Short feature, 2001, 14 min, Locomotive, director, producer,
Borderland (2001) — A poetic observation of life on Latvia's new borders after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Documentary, 2001, 52 min, Locomotive, producer
Hide & Seek (2001)
Feature, 75 min, Kaupo Filma, assistant director,
Where did They Dissappear? (2000)
Documentary essay, 7 min, Locomotive Film & Television, director, producer,
Checking out (1997) — Lidya, who spent her whole life under Soviet rule, is forced to leave her flat due to the new harsh economics of capitalism.
Short feature, 29 min, Locomotive Film & Television, producer, screenwriter
Locomotive presents - 17 TV programmes (1997)
17 x 30 min, Locomotive Film & Television, one of the four directors, producers
Tussofka (1996)
Documentary, 26 min, Locomotive Film & Television, director
The Island where the Wind was Born (1996) — Decades after Robert Flaherty staged "Man of Aran" on Ireland's remote Aran Islands, the film's real-life descendants reveal what the classic left behind.
Documentary, 52 min, Locomotive Film & Television, researcher, photographer,
Virgins of Riga (1996)
Feature, 1996, 98 min, Nordic Screen Development, assistant director
Selected work