About festival

Today's world is defined by borders and advanced by transgression, that is why this year 2ANNAS is looking for trespassers of the boundaries of ethical, political, artistic traditions and private space in cinema. The theme of transgression in this year's festival will be reflected in a cross-section of Latvian film history and in programmes revealing the subject matters snd visual approaches of contemporary cinema.

2ANNAS is breaking borders in competition programmes by selecting films that violate the borders of topics, taboo, habits and genres, as well as in non-competitive screenings.

2ANNAS brings to the silver screen even those works that might be considered plagiarism, contemplating, in the programme section "Fan-made Music Video", what's next when originality is exhausted and and breaking boundaries means recycling of previously created material. 2ANNAS will also offer a selection of works that use sexuality as the framework for analysis of different unrelated issues in the programme "Erotic?" and the premiere of the film "Castratus the Boar" by brothers Lauris and Raitis Ābele; a journey into political and historical transgression in the programme section RADICAL; the experience of the Lebanese trespassers, as well as the case study of artists making both animation and comics. As usual, 2ANNAS is a social event as well, encompassing parties, karaoke and dancing, thematic discussions and guided tours in collaboration with Shady Riga and Film Bloggers.

The Transgressors programme will be opened with the seminal German Expressionism masterpiece "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" screened in the restored version and accompanied live on piano, accordion and vibraphone. The music has been written especially for this screening.

The Transgressors programme has been created by curators Anna Veilande Kustikova and Agnese Logina (2ANNAS), Kristīne Matīsa, Vassily Bourikas, Laura Walde (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur), Daniel Ebner (Vienna Independent Shorts), Gaia Meucci (Encounters: Short and Animated Film Festival), Aleksei Dmitriev and Ilya Gladstein (86 IFF, Kiev).