SHORT RIGA
As an individual department within this year’s festival the team behind the wittily titled SHORT RIGA have devised a remarkable feat – altogether three competitions of new shorts from around the world, Baltic student films and a separate category for music videos. Showcased within three respective programmes SHORT RIGA will take over the newly established small theater KINO BIZE as well as organise workshops and host an award ceremony.
A young journalist, Zane, meets a man, Matīss, who claims to have risen from the dead. Matīss offers Zane to write an article about him, but in exchange wants help finding his wife. Is Matīss a victim, a madman or a skilled impostor?
GO TO FILMMart dreams of leaving to California. He believes that the grass is much greener at the other side, but when a new opportunity, a much more comfortable one, appears he will have to decide whether to leave or to stay.
GO TO FILMIt is not easy to make sense of the world and grownups’ reasoning if one is only seven years old. This is the story about Justine and the morning of her birthday.
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