Attention! The supervision board of the International Centre of Cinema  appoints Sonora Broka to the director and chairperson of the ICC with the 20th of  October. Till now Sonora Broka (from year 2006) was the Head of the ICC programm department and member of the board.

Augusts mysteriously vanishes; Elvita simply turns up one day, but The Ship Sails On. It is after all what matters. The film crowd creates films and inhabits them, the festivals screen. Everyone is essential to everyone else there, and all together they are most wanted – in the eye of the beholder. The last ship I have been aboard was steaming up the rivers of the wide-opened Russia, filming the documentary Just a priest. It was a confused, sinful, but quite a human vehicle – a floating church.

I have been talkative enough all this time. It is, soon, forty years – my age in cinematography. In 1986, I assembled my last film The Voice calling it my day in filmmaking. And today is the day I bid my farewell to Arsenals. It is now all yours. I have been frequently asked what is Arsenals , what are the principles, the criteria of our film selection? I can only be very brief as regards the forum itself – if we observe an ocean cruiser and we follow its sea-faring, witness it changing, coming the time, the captain, the wheelman, the boatswain, and, if we are among the passengers of that liner, the

The heart of Latvian scriptwriter, generator of ideas Arnolds Plaudis stopped during the only activity he held above the cinema, theater and fashion- swimming. It wouldn’t be right to say that people who remain behind would mourn because nobody ever has seen Arnold being sad and it seems he is not sad even now.

  November 7, 2007 1:09 pm. Rose Revolution Square. In front of Georgian Parliament in the very center of Tbilisi following order of president Mikhail Saakashvill forces of Ministry of Internal Affairs free the street from demontrants using water cannons and mace. People seek for refuge in the Building of Parliament, the church nearby. They raise their arms to show their pacifism. One of the leaders of opposition Giorgi Chaindrava-ex premier of Regional Conflict Affairs- is being arrested. Around 250 people urgently are being taken to hospitals.

In 1991 a huge fire devastated the pride of the city of Jurmala – Jūras pērle (the Sea pearl) that had its ship-like front reaching far into the beach and approaching the sea. Unnecessary to mention that the last celebration taking place in this restaurant was a dedication to the opening of Michelangelo Antonioni’s exhibition Architecture in vision. 32 screen images „Hands in Antonioni’s films” and „The threshold in Antonioni’s films”, which were made of 32 slide show projectors, brought back the memories of the hidden magic of his films. Journalists incredulously read the telegram that had come from Rome:

Our friend and colleague Laimonis Bermaks passed away in the Riga Hospital No.1 during the night between August 23 and 24. Born in Ventspils, 1923, graduated from the State Economic Technical College, worked continuously in the financial sector in Ventspils. He was under arrest by the German SD from 1943 to 1944, arrested and placed in custody by the Soviet KGB in 1946. Since 1975 Laimonis worked as the chief accountant at the Riga Film Studio - the third major studio by financial and economical indicators in USSR right after Mosfilm and Lenfilm.

Documents of time like good wine... Memories are our only paradise. The best memories come from our childhood - the imperceptible bright age, when everything seems beautiful. The sentiment of losseliani as well as of cinema come from a time that will never return. His films are documents of time. Otar Iosseliani has lived in France for 25 years but still remains a true Georgian. He is an exile of his own conviction. He

City stadium, industrial scenery. Low stands, running track, neat football field. There is a table set in the far side of the stadium. Lavash, cheese, greens. Two wine jars. Some meat gets roasted on a mangal. People sit there at the table, drink and eat. It’s August 3, 2004 - they have gathered to celebrate the 70th birthday of a French film director of Georgian origin, Otar Iosseliani. Tamada – the father of Arsenals - Augusts Sukuts, and the chairman of the executive committee of Arsenals, Maris Gailis,

If I walked out on the street to approach a random passer by asking to quickly name one Latvian film director, I bet this person would say - Janis Streičs! If he weren't a film director, he'd be a carpenter, Streičs himself has admitted. He'd be making tables, chairs and beds, bookshelves, visitors' benches and hope chests for young maidens. He'd become dizzy with the smell of wood. However, the smell of dust in a film studio or that of the green in a country farm is just as intoxicating and several other things are ready to