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Cuatro películas letonas se colocan en el top 10 de la taquilla nacional

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- A lo largo del primer semestre, los espectadores de los estrenos letones se doblaron con respecto al mismo periodo del año pasado

Cuatro películas letonas se colocan en el top 10 de la taquilla nacional
The Pagan King, de Aigars Grauba

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The National Film Centre of Latvia, the national film agency, has recently disclosed the domestic box-office figures for the period January-June 2018. The report confirms that audience interest in national films has doubled, and overall attendance for all new releases exceeded 290,000, almost 100,000 viewers more than in 2017. In particular, films produced as part of the special Latvia 100 – Latvian Films for Latvia’s Centennial jubilee programme represent a considerable portion of this year’s cinema-going (206,000 viewers).

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In total, four Latvian films have made it into the top ten in terms of attendance levels, and three of these have remained in the chart since April. Said productions are Aigars Grauba’s The Pagan King (81,789 viewers, premiered on 17 January and ranking first), Oskars Rupenheits’ The Foundation of Criminal Excellence (74,347 viewers, premiered on 2 February and the second most-viewed film), Madara Dišlere's Paradise 89 (53,083 viewers, premiered on 22 February and the fifth most-viewed movie) and Ināra Kolmane’s Bille (39,778 viewers, premiered on 20 April and the ninth most-viewed title). Two out of these four domestic releases were granted support by the National Film Centre of Latvia’s jubilee programme, namely Bille and Paradise 89.

This is certainly an impressive result for the small Baltic republic, as two domestic releases have outpaced Universal Pictures’ international box-office hit Fifty Shades Freed, and total audience numbers have now reached 290,013, which continues the trend of growth when we look back at 2017 (194,083 cinemagoers for the whole year), 2016 (185,782) and 2015 (103,598). Full attendance statistics for 2018 will be available at the end of the distribution year, and thus the number of viewers is expected to increase further. Furthermore, the market share of Latvian films has enjoyed consistent growth. According to data published in 2017, the figure for national films during the last five years has not exceeded 7.84%, but the average number for the first half of 2018 is now 24%. The jubilee programme, which includes 16 feature films, has definitely played a crucial role in stimulating these positive trends.

The first autumn premiere of a Latvia 100 film will be on 5 September, when Bridges of Time [+lee también:
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 will be shown during the opening of the annual Baltic Sea Documentary Forum. The feature tells the story of a number of legendary Baltic documentarians, who, in the 1960s, opened up new horizons in cinematic language in terms of visual poetics and the versatility of content. Produced by Riga-based firm VFS films in co-operation with Vesilind (Estonia) and Studio Nominum (Lithuania), Bridges of Time was co-directed by Kristīne Briede and Audrius Stonys, and was penned by both helmers in collaboration with prominent Baltic filmmakers Ramune RakauskaiteArūnas Matelis and Riho Västrik. The project received support from the National Film Centre of Latvia, the European Documentary Network and the Creative Europe MEDIA programme.

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