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.
“It’s about time”, says a piece of paper stuck to a windowpane. These words encourage a lonely man to go out into town, but the old man is too slow, and dressing up takes too much time for him to leave the house before it gets dark.
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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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Helen, a priest, is asked to visit a teenage boy committed to a psychiatric hospital because he has killed an elderly couple and failed a suicide attempt. The boy believes his act was the will of God.
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During a relatively short period of four years since 2011, the Atom Art studio’s series of short animations entitled “Shammies” has become something of a local sensation, as well as received much praise from across the border. The adorable animated characters explore the world just like their “peers” – the smallest movie-goers – would. This year comes with their newest adventures – the festival will premiere four new Shammies films. In these, Shammies will learn how take care of friends, build a house, do the chores, and play.
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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?
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