| Cinema of Latvia | |
|---|---|
 Cinema "Gaisma" in Valmiera | |
| No. of screens | 63 (2011)[1] |
| • Per capita | 3.4 per 100,000 (2011)[1] |
| Main distributors | Forum Cinemas 57.5% Acme Film Latvia 16.5% Incognito Films 5.6[2] |
| Produced feature films (2011)[3] | |
| Fictional | 4 |
| Animated | 1 |
| Documentary | 1 |
| Number of admissions (2011)[5] | |
| Total | 1,879,149 |
| • Per capita | 1.13 (2012)[4] |
| National films | 66,337 (3.5%) |
| Gross box office (2011)[5] | |
| Total | EUR 7.54 million |
| National films | EUR 98,625 (1.3%) |
Cinemas of Latvia date back to 1910 when the first short films were made.[6] The first cinematic screening in Riga took place on May 28, 1896.[7] By 1914, all major cities in Latvia had cinemas where newsreels, documentaries, and mostly foreign-made short films were screened.
Two years after cinema was invented by the Lumiere brothers, on 22 January 1898, Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga.
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- ^ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ "Baltic Films - Facts and figures" (PDF). Nacionālais Kino centrs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
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- ^ "The most important dates in the film history of Latvia". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-08-29.