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.
At the end of the Second World War, near an Estonian island a Latvian steamship Rasma ran onto a mine and sank. On board it had manufacturing equipment from Riga Sewing Factory, Husqvarna bicycles, crops and flour.
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Cēzars Kalniņš, a telephone technician, spends his spare time composing songs for a band of amateur musicians. In order to perform, the band must go through an elaborate bureaucratic process of censorship to receive a permit. Meanwhile, Anita Sondore, a member of the censoring committee, hears some of the band’s songs at an improvised concert and decides to write a complaint.
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