Aik Karapetian

People Out There (2012)

Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker are involved in several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting the “golden youth” beauty Sabina, he looks for a fresh start in downtown circles, but only finds contempt. His hopes for love, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Ilya Scherbakov  •  Viktoria Kondratenko  •  Mareks Marcinkevics  •  Andris Gross

Jan, a guy in his twenties, and his friend Cracker are involved in several crimes in their neglected suburb of the city. After meeting the “golden youth” beauty Sabina, he looks for a fresh start in downtown circles, but only finds contempt. His hopes for love, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Ilya Scherbakov  •  Viktoria Kondratenko  •  Mareks Marcinkevics  •  Andris Gross

The Man in the Orange Jacket (2014)

A business executive lays off hundreds of harbor workers after they go on strike. He and his wife plan to escape the stress by taking an Italian vacation. On the evening before the trip, one of the fired workers, dressed in an orange harbor worker safety jacket, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Maksims Lazarevs  •  Anta Aizupe  •  Āris Rozentāls  •  Katarina Gaile

A business executive lays off hundreds of harbor workers after they go on strike. He and his wife plan to escape the stress by taking an Italian vacation. On the evening before the trip, one of the fired workers, dressed in an orange harbor worker safety jacket, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Maksims Lazarevs  •  Anta Aizupe  •  Āris Rozentāls  •  Katarina Gaile

Firstborn (2017)

A psychological thriller about a middle-aged intellectual who, in an attempt to restore his reputation in his wife’s eyes, accidentally commits a murder. As time passes, he begins to see a link between the deceased, his wife’s pregnancy and the mysterious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Kaspars Zāle  •  Kaspars Znotiņš  •  Mārtiņš Liepa

A psychological thriller about a middle-aged intellectual who, in an attempt to restore his reputation in his wife’s eyes, accidentally commits a murder. As time passes, he begins to see a link between the deceased, his wife’s pregnancy and the mysterious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Maija Doveika  •  Kaspars Zāle  •  Kaspars Znotiņš  •  Mārtiņš Liepa

Montemezzi: L’incantesimo (2019)

A rediscovery at the Latvian National Opera. The opera L’incantesimo was forgotten soon after its premiere. Its composer, Italo Montemezzi, was inspired by the great champions of Italian verismo, including Ruggero Leoncavallo. This resurrection of Montemezzi’s work ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Dana Bramane  •  Vladislav Sulimsky  •  Irakli Kakhidze  •  Romāns Polisadovs

A rediscovery at the Latvian National Opera. The opera L’incantesimo was forgotten soon after its premiere. Its composer, Italo Montemezzi, was inspired by the great champions of Italian verismo, including Ruggero Leoncavallo. This resurrection of Montemezzi’s work ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Dana Bramane  •  Vladislav Sulimsky  •  Irakli Kakhidze  •  Romāns Polisadovs

Disgust (2007)

A young man lives a lonely existence together with a mother whose only interest is watching programmes about animals. He finds the surrounding emptiness so traumatising that he decides to change his life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Inara Slucka  •  Maksims Lazarevs  •  Tatjana Lukašenkova

A young man lives a lonely existence together with a mother whose only interest is watching programmes about animals. He finds the surrounding emptiness so traumatising that he decides to change his life.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Inara Slucka  •  Maksims Lazarevs  •  Tatjana Lukašenkova

Squeal (2022)

Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and makes him a forced laborer on the farm.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Kevin Janssens  •  Laura Siliņa  •  Aigars Vilims  •  Juris Bartkevičs

Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and makes him a forced laborer on the farm.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aik Karapetian
CAST:  Kevin Janssens  •  Laura Siliņa  •  Aigars Vilims  •  Juris Bartkevičs