All movies will be screened at the free cinema

On Saturday, December 8, the National Film Center "Splendid Palace" will host a centenary film marathon under the slogan "Thank you for your visit!" Meanwhile, the films created in the program "Latvian films for the centenary of Latvia" will be communicated to the national portal "Delfi". Kristine Matīsa, representative of the cinema center.

The program of the National Film Center "Latvian film for the Latvian century" includes 16 feature films, the first of which began in 2017 and will continue until 2019. Until the end of the year year anniversary, 14 films have already been presented and they can all be viewed again. For the first time, on December 8th, the Splendid Palace cinema will be presented in both rooms of the day. The first show in the Great Hall will start at 10:00 am and the last at 11:00 pm in the Little Hall. and at 11:15 pm in the Great Hall. The film marathon sessions of one hundred years will be open free of charge, with free tickets registered, which will be available December 5 at the Splendid Palace box office and at the same time. address www.bilesuserviss.lv.

One of the important future objectives to increase the contribution of the program "Latvian film for the Latvian century" is to open cinematographic films to cinematographers from other countries. The National Film Center invites film producers from other countries and cinematographers from different countries to visit the Film Center. All films will be screened with translation. In exchange, thanks to the dynamic participation in the demonstration of the cinematographic film in the regions of Latvia, the movie theater operators and the organizers of the cultural life of different regions of Latvia are invited to the projection of the kinematic marathon.

During the special screening at 6:30 pm in the Grand Gallery of the "Splendid Palace", the 16th century authors will be honored; This show will feature Homo Novus, the most popular one hundred year old movie this year, with more than 77,000 viewers. Statistics show that all centenarians have already visited more than 300,000 spectators. This is certainly not the end result, at least seven Century movies are shown in various theaters and other directories from time to time.

A full program of film shows is available on the National Film Center website.

It has already been reported that the Latvian film program for the centenary of Latvia has radically changed the attendance statistics of the cinema in the country. In 2018, several previous and "non-mobile" registrations have been overcome. For example, on the 10th of this year, the ten most visited films in Latvian cinemas feature five Latvian films (in previous years, at best one or two), including three in the "Latvian Films for Latvia's Centenary" program.

The twentieth century has also changed, which summarizes the results of the visit of Latvian films in an independent country (since the mid-90s) – the last five decades are already part of the Top 15 of the Top 10 independent films of Latvia.

Two films from the program will be presented next year: on January 18, the feature film "1906" by Gata Smith will be screened and on February 1, the animated film will be screened. Edmund Janson "James, Mimmy and Talking Dogs".