Toms Skele Cinematographer / film work

Frog Safari

2025 / 27 min / documentary / IMDB

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37

The Last Will

TrailerJānis Ābele

Guntis Trekteris / Jānis Ābele / Dita Birkenšteina

Jānis Joņevs

Andris Grants

Ernests Ansons

Premiere at Riga International Film Festival, 2025

Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), Tallinn, 2025

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

Stīgas

2025 / 25 min / romance / IMDB

Episode from the anthology series "Kolektīvs"

Cast

Madara Viļčuka/ Kurts Kārlis Mitenbergs / Jekaterina Frolova / Armands Bergis

Jānis Ābele

Lelde Troska / Māris Lagzdiņš

Linda Rudene

Watch online

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

My 80 Springs

2025 / 85 min / documentary / IMDB

Trailer

Director Agnese Laizāne

Producer Linda Krūkle / K films

Editor Toms Krauklis

AWARDS
Latvian National Film Festival "Lielais Kristaps" 2025, Best Debut

Watch online (in Latvian language only)

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

The Call of the Void

2024 / 30 min / Drama, mystery / IMDB

An episode from TET TV+ anthology "Freaky Fables"

Directed by Jānis Ābele
Producer Kristīne Broka, KMM Visuals

Written by Jānis Ābele, Nigel Leadbitter, Maris Broks

AWARDS

Latvian National Film Festival "Lielais Kristaps" 2025, Best Short Film

Watch online

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17

Blank Page Syndrome

2024 / 8 min / Documentary essay / IMDB

Directed by Jānis Ābele, Toms Šķēle

Written by Linda Rudene

Produced by Jānis Ābele

Production Company: Chaland Films, Latvia

Financed by State Culture Capital Foundation VKKF
Jelgavas Tipografija

Premiered at 64th Krakow Film Festival

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

The Art of Looking

2024 / 17 min / Documentary / IMDB

Written and directed by Andris Gauja

Producer Margus Õunapuu / Co-Producer Andris Gauja

Production Company Film Tower (Estonia) / Riverbed (Latvia)

Financed by Tartu 2024 / Estonian Film Institute / National Film Centre of Latvia / The Cultural Endowment of Estonia / Tartu Film Fund / Latvian Academy of Culture / Arkogints / Film Tower / Riverbed

Premiered at Ji.Hlava IDFF 2024

AWARDS
Madrid Shorts documentary festival, Best Documentary Short Film 2024

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Importance of Hydration

2023 / 7 min / Mystery, romance / IMDB

Directed by Jānis Ābele & Toms Šķēle

Produced by Jānis Ābele / Sintija Brakša / Toms Šķēle

Production Company Chaland Films

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

81 Meters

2022 / 14 min / Documentary essay / IMDB

Director Jānis Ābele

Produced by Dita Birkenšteina / Jānis Ābele

Production Company Chaland Films, Latvia

Financed by State Culture Capital Foundation VKKF

Premiered at Beldocs 2022

AWARDS
Latvian National Film Award "Lielais Kristaps" 2022 - Best Short Documentary

Watch online

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Banuta

2021 / 154 min / Opera film / IMDB

Directed by Franziska Kronfoth
Dramaturgy by Evarts Melnalksnis
Produced by Marta Kontiņa / Elizabete Palasiosa
Production Company: Sansusī, Story Hub, Latvia / Hauen und Stechen, Germany

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17

7 Billion Years Before the End of the World

2018 / 78 min / Drama, romance / IMDB

Directed by Jānis Ābele
Produced by Guntis Trekteris / Inga Jerzjukova / Maxime Gavaudan
Production Company: Ego Media, Latvia / Belavox Films, France

AWARDS
Splendid Palace audience award, Riga International Film Festival, 2018
Organizer Special Mention, Lublin Film Festival, Poland, 2019