Cinema of Latvia
Cinemas of Latvia date back to 1910 when the first short films were made. The first cinematic screening in Riga took place on May 28, 1896. By 1914, all major cities in Latvia had cinemas where newsreels, documentaries, and mostly foreign-made short films were screened.
| Cinema of Latvia | |
|---|---|
Cinema "Gaisma" in Valmiera | |
| No. of screens | 63 (2011) |
| • Per capita | 3.4 per 100,000 (2011) |
| Main distributors | Forum Cinemas 57.5% Acme Film Latvia 16.5% Incognito Films 5.6 |
| Produced feature films (2011) | |
| Fictional | 4 |
| Animated | 1 |
| Documentary | 1 |
| Number of admissions (2011) | |
| Total | 1,879,149 |
| • Per capita | 1.13 (2012) |
| National films | 66,337 (3.5%) |
| Gross box office (2011) | |
| Total | EUR 7.54 million |
| National films | EUR 98,625 (1.3%) |
Two years after cinema was invented by the Lumiere brothers, on 22 January 1898, Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga.
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