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The story is about guys who are searching in Lake Liepaja for an airplane that sank many years ago during the war. Aivar also wants to be part of the group of guys looking for the airplane. To do this, he needs to pass a test - walk along the pier to the old fort and carve his name on the wall. On the way back, he is caught in a storm, but he passes the ordeal with honor. An old sailor Yoran, who lives on the decommissioned ship "Izabella", helps the guys in their search for the airplane.
The film combines three short stories: Der Mond, "Tristan und Isolde" and "Aida". The themes of these short stories are sin, duty and love.
In 1946, a group of Latvian Brazilian Baptist missionaries arrived to Rincon del Tigre (“Jaguar’s Corner”), in the backwoods of Bolivia, to preach God’s word to the Ayoreo Indians. After sixty years of selfless work in a largely hostile environment, something seems to have gone terribly wrong. Habituated to living under the protective wings of the mission, the Ayoreos seem neither to be willing to support themselves and start living on their own, nor able to return to their traditional way of life in the jungle. Dressed in second-hand clothes, they are stranded in the backwoods of Western-style civilization, with no particular way to go.
A little girl’s father has to go to London. The little girl and her toy rabbit would like to go with him. Of course that’s out of the question. Yet little girls aren’t into giving up and even the smallest suitcase proves big enough.
An ordinary day turns into an adventure and becomes an extraordinary day.
An entomologist finds a new type of bug in the meadow and would be glad to add it to his collection. But bugs don’t want to be museum objects – the two bug girls have to find a way to save their parents.
Baron Munchausen’s string of victories against the Turks is disrupted by a love letter from his bride, Jacobine von Dunten, propelling the Baron into an adventure-filled journey back to her.
It is a planet where there can never be more than one being at a time. If one arrives, the other must leave.
A story about Penguins. About their ‘consolidated’ society and unified thinking. About fashion and the crowd instinct. Yet despite all this, the protagonist is the Penguin who has always been regarded as the black sheep of the group. He is different…he has his own opinion.
In the mid – 1960’s, Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union. People lived identical lives, listened to the same radio stations. Children wore the same boots and ate the same porridge every morning. Only their dreams and desires for something different set them apart from each other. For little Dace this is a moment, where stand still of childhood’s happiness turns into time for growing up. "A fullfilled expression of Beauty in the passage of Life." (Dmitry Rancev, "The Independent", Latvia) "Competent and Spartan…" (Jan Ingman, catalogue of "Stockholm IFF")