From today, April 6 to June 15, cinema lovers are invited to the already well-known cinema lecture What you may not know. LCA Riga Cinema Museum and Riga Cinema Splendid Palace it is being held for the 17th time this spring. All impressions will take place Splendid Palace at 19.00, while the closing screening on June 15, the contents of which are still kept secret by the organizers, promising a glorious surprise, will take place outdoors near the cinema. This time, the film lecture hall will present films made abroad by Latvian-born or Latvian-born film directors, screenwriters, producers – both well-known authors and those that will be a new discovery for many. Films of various periods and genres will be shown, which will allow us to talk about the history of both Latvia and cinema.
Tonight, the cinema will open the new season with a silent film by Johannes (or John) Gutter In the tower of silence (1925), made in the Republic of Weimar. Guther started his professional life in Latvia, but is better known in Germany, where he is one of the founders of German cinema. In the tower of silence is a silent melodrama about a woman whose father kept a high tower there. She saves a nearby adversity, and the event changes the lives of both of them. The film will be introduced by a lecture by film theorist and director Dāvis Sīmanis.
German LGBTQ + film pioneer and Riga-born Rose von Praunheim will be able to watch a film on April 20 The city of lost souls (1983), which focuses on the study of sexuality in Berlin in the early 1980s. Before the film, it will be presented by film publicist and curator Julien Nuhum Kulibali.
On May 3, the program will continue with a screening of animated short films with thematically and stylistically different films by Signe Baumane, Anete Melece, Daina Krūmiņš, Rasa Strautmane and Anete Brūvere, made from the 60s to the present day. Animation expert, curator Anna Zača will talk about them.
Meanwhile, films by Teuvo Tulio, the founder of the Finnish melodrama genre, are scheduled for May 18 The cross of love (1946) session, which will be introduced by a lecture by director and writer Kristīne Želves. The film, a classic melodrama with elements of social criticism, is the story of a lighthouse watchman who is lured to the city and seduced, leading him to the profession of a prostitute. True love is her salvation and misery.
On June 1, Boris Ingster will be shown A stranger on the third floor (1940), the first in the history of cinema dark movie movie. The directorial debut of Riga-born director and screenwriter Boris Azarha is a crime drama about a future reporter who witnesses a murder case and is charged with a similar crime shortly after trial. The film will be talked about by a film scientist and dark movie researcher Dita Rietuma.
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