Cinema of Latvia

Cinema of Latvia
Cinema "Gaisma" in Valmiera
No. of screens63 (2011)[1]
 • Per capita3.4 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributorsForum Cinemas 57.5%
Acme Film Latvia 16.5%
Incognito Films 5.6[2]
Produced feature films (2011)[3]
Fictional4
Animated1
Documentary1
Number of admissions (2011)[5]
Total1,879,149
 • Per capita1.13 (2012)[4]
National films66,337 (3.5%)
Gross box office (2011)[5]
TotalEUR 7.54 million
National filmsEUR 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.

  1. ^ a b "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Baltic Films - Facts and figures" (PDF). Nacionālais Kino centrs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  5. ^ a b "Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  6. ^ Culture And Customs of the Baltic States By Kevin O'Connor
  7. ^ "The most important dates in the film history of Latvia". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-08-29.