For the fourth consecutive year, the ArtDoc & ProArt thematic programme will take place at the ZUZEUM Art Centre, presenting films about art and films that are themselves works of art. This special programme traditionally concludes the festival and will be screened during its final days, from 6 to 8 March.
Within ArtDoc & ProArt, cinema becomes a process of thinking, inviting the viewer to reconsider notions of reality, the body, gender, space, and the role of art in the contemporary world. This programme does not offer comfortable viewing, but rather an intense experience of presence — cinema as a visual, intellectual, and emotional event.
“The programme clearly reveals a tendency to rethink the relationship between art and society — both through personal memories and biographical layers, and through collective historical traumas and cultural symbols. The films balance between documentary and poetic abstraction, between observation and performative acts, often employing minimalism, fragmentation, and visual metaphor as their primary expressive tools,” says Vaiva Bauze, curator of the programme.
Two Latvian films stand out in the 2026 programme: Zalktis, which follows poet Judah Montague’s summer journey through Latvia and Lithuania, and the stone and I, exploring sculptor Ojārs Feldbergs’ relationship with stone in both life processes and creative practice. Screenings of these films will take place on 8 March at 7:30 PM, followed by discussions with the directors.
All films are screened in their original languages with English subtitles and Latvian translation.
Admission is free with prior registration.
Registration for screenings is available via the ZUZEUM website.
Programme
FRIDAY, 06.03.2026
ZUZEUM, “Auss” Hall, 3rd floor, 6:00 PM
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Art is Play (This Is a Film About Hanoch Piven) / Germany, Israel / 6’
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Totality / France / 15’
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Passion According to Agnieszka / Poland / 50’
SATURDAY, 07.03.2026
ZUZEUM, Living Room, 1st floor
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6:00 PM Across the border. The images of Mimmo and Francesco Jodice/ Italy / 75’
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7:30 PM Velvet Vision - The Story of James Bidgood (and the Making of Pink Narcissus) / USA / 98’
SUNDAY, 08.03.2026
ZUZEUM, Living Room, 1st floor
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6:00 PM Towards White / Netherlands / 7’
Johannes Raas — Bos Taurus Action / Austria, United Kingdom / 57’ -
7:30 PM the stone and I / Latvia / 17’
Zalktis / Latvia, United Kingdom / 40’
The festival is supported by Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonds, the Riga City Council, German television channel Deutsche Welle, the Goethe-Institut, German Films, the Embassy of Poland, the Embassy of Israel, the Jewish Community Restitution Fund of Latvia, Splendid Palace Cinema, Tallink Hotel, Media Hub Riga community centre “Power-Up Space”, ZUZEUM Art Centre, Benjamiņa nams, Skrīveru saldumi, Rīgas Melnais balzams, LiveRiga Agency, the Riga Film Museum, media outlets Meduza, Delfi, LSM, Radio SWH, and the platforms Artdoc.Media and AfishaMira.