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.
Before the party, there’s always the pre-party! The screening on the first day of the festival and at the chosen significant “prime time” – 19:19 is comprised of a selection of ten films by the students of The Latvian Academy of Culture from 2006-2015.
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This is a sad tale of a life and death illuminated by the paparazzi flashes – of singer Amy Winehouse’s brilliant career and her untimely death.
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In the newly founded Soviet Union, where people still honestly believe in a bright future, Polina, a commander of the Red Army, and her friends, avant-garde artists (a composer, a director, a sculptor, an architect, and a theatre director), are sent to the north of Russia to convince, using cultural methods, the local tribes of the advantages of the new government.
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Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a “gypsy slave” who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble’s wife.
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Zenya Tsoy is an impression artist who impersonates the grandees of Russian show business, becoming, for example, Filip Kirkorov or the singer Lolita. He is thirty-three, and for many years he has been living with another man, the world’s most charming bus driver.
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Donetsk’s airport, named after Sergei Prokofiev, was renovated in 2012, but destroyed two years later in the war between Ukrainian forces and Donetsk separatists. The atrocious battle for the airport – a more symbolic, than strategic, aim – has been shown through the eyes of both sides.
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Three self-conscious, highly-educated pedophiles give an insight in their minds and thoughts. How do you cope with a sexual orientation that’s considered morbid?
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After a casting, 2 filmmakers agree they found the perfect 14 years old girl for their new movie. Still, they must convince the mother to let her play the role of a sexually abused child. What follows is a witty argumentation on parenting and abuses made in the name of of art.
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On a seemingly ordinary night at a grill bar by a highway, nothing outside the ordinary happens. Somebody is drunk and passed out on the table. Some other guests try to get in, but the owner of the place has other plans – he needs to dance. And then, suddenly, clock starts ticking backwards, there is a beam of intense light – and an encounter that could not be called ordinary by any means.
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A journey of an over modern future wave guy to conquer the virtual reality and reunite with a beyond focused laser-cat-combatant. In order to get there and to open the window he has to get high and get low.
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