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.
Claude is twenty-three; he reads and cycles a lot, is interested in politics, and tries to live aesthetically, but he is also lost in his own life. Barbara will soon turn twenty, she studies acting, believes she’s an optimist, wants to travel and live in Paris.
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When her husband suddenly dies, Karin starts visiting a counselor. Used to being a housewife for years, she feels she has lost her identity. Now Karin has to learn more about herself and plan her income and future. Her husband was a charismatic priest always in the centre of peoples’ attention, earning respect regardless of his flaws and shortcomings. Maybe now it is the time for Karin to take her husband’s place? To become more careless and to look and behave like she has always wanted.
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Círio de Nazaré, held in Belém (Brazil) since 1793, is one of the biggest Catholic processions in the world. Each year millions of pilgrims accompany the saint’s statue competing for the privilege of holding the long sisal rope that leads the carriage throughout the city streets. In disarray with the rules of the celebration, and in order to assure their relics, some promisers cut the rope in the middle of the ritual.
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On the 3rd October 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. More than 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and vividly remembers the nightmarish experience. Meanwhile, chaos breaks loose at the harbour, whilst hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.
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Nobody knows how to define LOVE. How to describe the feeling of falling in love. Yet, at the same time, LOVE is the most written topic of all. We all think about LOVE and we think about our loved ones. LOVE is an essential element of life and must be interpreted through all mediums, forms and stories. The super-slow motion technique gives a dimension to the story that is highly needed – it is a well-known truth that the world stands still around the person you love.
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