The white tranquility of mountains is disturbed by colorful winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy downhill skiing. The short film is an audiovisual experience, an abstract dance of freedom that reflects the joy and fragility of being.
Franz and Milena – between them a distance, her husband and loads of letters – it is love that fills Kafka’s life with light and hope and at the same time illuminates the fears and darkness in him. The animated short “Kafka. In Love” is based on Kafka’s Letters to Milena. It explores less known, but nonetheless extraordinary and puzzling aspects of Kafka’s personality.
In the deep countryside of Latgale, relatives and neighbours, near and far,
come together to celebrate the last important ritual of human life. A series of
events and details reveal a picture in which two different eras overlap.
The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order.
Short animation inspired by the most popular Latvian folksong – a lullaby about a family of bears.
A natural disaster interferes with the honour guard ritual. Only one of the guards, seemingly pointlessly, chooses to remain in his post.
Shammies are four little and curious creatures who already know how to play, but many exciting things are still to be discovered and learned, for instance, how to build a house, how to get married, how to get well or how to play hide and seek. Luckily dear, wise Mr. Cat is always around to help.
Riga’s Lilac is a tragicomic story about social impact of a bad smell. In a style of a documentary film, the story is based on real interviews with people, who reveal their overwhelm, caused by a strong smell of someone else.
Jacob spends summer in the city’s suburbs with his cousin, the smarty-boots Mimmi, and become friends with Boss, the leader of a horde of talking homeless dogs. Jacob and Mimmi together with the dogs try to rescue the place from the rich Lord Pie who has plans to convert the romantic wooden-house-neighbourhood into an impersonal glass skyscraper area.
Tonight, Anna and her dad have decided to walk home through the forest. Anna takes a torch and dad lights it up for her. The silent forest is as enchanting, as it is scary and the bright flame as protective as it is blinding.
To win back her parents’ attention, a six-year-old girl nicknamed Pigtail and her imaginary friend Mr. Sleeplessness come up with a clever plan to send her Baby Brother and Grandma to the Moon.
In the middle of a grey sea there is a grey isle. On this grey island grey hunters live. The life is simple and harsh. Seals and hunters live together in a cruel balance. One day, the Photographer arrives to document this everyday life. For him it turns out to be deadly complicated.
A message brought by the wind urges a lonely man to go out to the city, but there is someone who does not want him to leave the room.
It’s a wild free-for-all when a famous boys’ choir breaks away from their conductor while on tour in Seoul and causes mayhem in the hotel.
For people Father’s Day is a celebration, but for one small bird – an ordinary working day. And concerns are the same old – to get food for his family.
As in a moment of awakening the film slowly develops into awareness. From small bits and pieces of seemingly random spots of light and darkness silhouettes of bodies appear. Is it a dream or just a constantly evolving moment of thought?
A charcoal on paper animation about a motorcycling circus bear who decides to leave the daily routine and takes off to the forest where his true happiness seems to dwell.
One evening Shammies – Sockie, Mitten, Pillow and Hankie – are watching Mr. Cat clean himself. During the day they too have become soiled and dusty and decide to take a bath. While Mitten is thinking whether to lick himself clean the way Mr. Cat does it, Hankie goes downstairs to the bathroom and discovers a Water Monster…
Springtime in Crow street is a musical story about love, honour and forgiveness. Janka, a Riga suburbian lad in his dream manages to save Zelma even from a fire, and gets decorated with medal – a button that has been flattened on tram rails. Will he be courageous enough to stand up for his love in the eyes of everyone in the yard and park, where there the Indians from the neighboring street are lurking?