SPECIAL EVENTS
THE OPENING OF 2ANNAS: SCREENING OF "THE CABINET OF DR.CALIGARI" WITH LIVE MUSIC
17/10 18:00 "Splendid Palace" Big hall
Pushing boundaries requires courage, which is why 2ANNAS festival wants to set an example and prepare both the guests of the festival and the audience for what to expect from this years' festival. The opening ceremony will have a screening of a transgressor - a cinematic masterpiece of the german expresionists accompanied by a live music performance - written especially for the film and the event.
THE CABINET OF DR.CALIGARI/
DAS CABINET DES DR.CALIGARI, Robert Wiene, horror, Germany, 1920, 77'
A sinister hypnotist travels the carnival circuit displaying a somnambulist named Cesare. In one tiny German town, a series of murders coincides with Caligari's visit. When the best friend of hero Francis is killed, the deed seems to be the outgrowth of a romantic rivalry over the hand of the lovely Jane. Francis suspects Caligari, but he is ignored …
Composer: Inita Jansone
Performed by: Marita Bērziņa (accordion), Jānis Fedotovs (vibraphone) un Inita Jansone (piano).
The restored version with English titles is screened with the support of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung fond.
RUSSIA/UKRAINE – BOSOM ENEMIES
October 20, 18:30, KKc cultural centre
Russia and Ukraine are historically united by sadness: Chernobyl, corruption, zombifiyng orthodoxy. But recently the sadness has increased to an unseen level. With the soft power of everyday propaganda the pictures broadcasted through TV make people fight each other. And people do.
But we don’t. We don’t want to. We chose to use comedy and self-irony to manage the current situation. Hence the collection of films that balances between laughter and despair.
Sparkling comedy and unwanted pregnancy documentary, LGBT priest and sex in Chernobyl, language fights and revolutionary chronicles — you will find all of these in the Ukrainian-Russian program “Bosom Enemies”.
I WILL FORGET THIS DAY, Alina Rudnitskaya, documentary, Russia, 2010/11, 25'
You can forget. You have to forget. It is impossible to forget... A woman's thoughts and feelings just before she has an abortion.
BRUTUS/
БPYT, Svetlana Filippova, animation, Russia, 2014, 13'
Brutus always glanced into human eyes only for a moment and immediately turned away so as not to see any change, to keep what he was given and carry away what he received. Nobody knows better than dogs how fast people’s affections can change. "It is a pity that we, the dogs, we cannot talk about anything with people, otherwise we would teach them to recognize the smell of good and evil."
LEGS - ATAVISM/
НОГИ - АТАВИЗМ, Mikhail Mestetskiy, fiction, Russia, 2012, 11'
In the 10-minute research the film crew is trying to pierce through the mysteries of one of the wildest sects of experimental medicine.
THE ROAD BACK/
VOZVRASHCHENIYA, Aleksandr Ratiy, Ukraine, 2012, 10' 30''
The story of a man who is born in the past century and millennium, in the city and state that are not on the map anymore. He always comes back to the town that only has two maternity hospitals, two industrial plants and two cemeteries. Why?
NUCLEAR WASTE/
YADERNI VIDKHODY, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine, 2012, 23'
Sergiy and Sveta live in Chernobyl. Sergiy is a truck-driver at a radioactive waste utilization plant. Sveta works at a radioactive decontamination laundry. Their work and their lives are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm with clockwork precision. But what sets this mechanism in day-by-day motion?
THE FIREWOOD OF REVOLUTION, Babylon 13, Ukraine, 2014, 2'
"When you need to shit, the anthem won't help you out." During the Maidan revolution, creative disagreements are unfolding at the heart of the Independence Square.
V/NA UKRAINE, Nata Perevalova, Ukraine, 2013, 2'
Can we hear each other?
EXARCH, Nadia Parfan/Maria Stoyanova, Ukraine, 2013, 10'
A young Orthodox priest, fed up with too much intolerance and hypocrisy at the Kyiv Pechery Lavra, decides to leave his service there. He finds for himself a new flock: gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people as well as those living with HIV/AIDS. However, the official Orthodox Church denies them the right to be Christians, and homophobic society compels them to hide their sexual orientation. What has to happen to make the Church embrace LGBT believers?
STILL MOVING
October 21, 19:00, KKc cultural centre
“Still Moving” exhibition dedicated to interaction of comics and animation art will be opening on 21 October at the Kaņepes Culture Centre (KCC).
Organised by the Riga International Film Festival ‘2ANNAS’ and in collaboration with “kuš!” comics art anthology the exhibition features works by many young artists, active both as animators and comics authors. “Still Moving” is an invitation to explore the ways in which a story of a single character can be told using varied media and see it come alive through still image and video animation.
The opening ceremony will start on 21 October, at 7pm at the KCC and it will be followed by a screening of an international short animation film selection.
On 22 October the festival ‘2ANNAS’ and “kuš!” are inviting to meet the artists, participants of the exhibition and learn about their work in a very informal, late breakfast format.
Artists: Anete Melece (Latvia), Ernests Kļaviņš (Latvia), Mārtiņš Zutis (Latvia), Oskars Pavlovskis (Latvia), Chintis Lundgren (Estonia), Stella Salumaa (Estonia), Nicolas Mahler (Austria), KIIN (Germany), Janek Koza (Poland), Renata Gasiorowska (Poland) and Lilli Carre (USA).
Entrance fees:
Exhibition opening and portfolio presentation – free entrance.
Animation film screening – 3 EUR. To book your tickets, please email to: info@2annas.lv.
PACKED LIKE SARDINES/
ELU KILUKARBIS, Stella Salumaa, Estonia, 2010, 3'
Sometimes life is like packed sardines – it is so narrow that you just cannot exist. You can try to escape from that situation or try to hide yourself. There is more air to breathe in your own mind world than in the real world. This is how the protagonist of this film thinks, who hides himself into the mass of other people, where no-one can see him and where it is possible for him to be in peace.
FOX IN THE BOAT, Chintis Lundgren, Estonia, 2013, 2'
Some rabbits with a good singing voices are having a good time drinking absinthe and playing some lovely accordion-music when suddenly strange things start to happen.
ALPHABETS HEAVEN - BIRTHDAY, Renata Gąsiorowska, music video, Poland, 2013, 4'
Music video for the song "Birthday" by "Alphabets Heaven".
MYSTERY MUSIC, Nicolas Mahler, Austria, 2009, 5'
A short animated film based on eponymous comic book.
HEAD GARDEN, Lilli Carré, USA, 2009, 3'
A lyrical, surreal, mesmerizing exegesis of what it’s like to lose your head.
KROJC, Janek Koza, Poland, 2010, 3'
Music video for “Krojc”.
KURWS - ANI LEPIEJ, ANI GORZEJ, Janek Koza, Poland, 2011, 1'
Music video for “Kurws”.
ADVENTURES IN COOKIELAND, Mārtiņš Zutis, Latvia, 2012, 0' 30''
Protagonist's memories of a terrifying adventure in Cookieland remained subconscious until an accidental discovery.
PHANTOM
FANTOMS, Oskars Pavlovskis, Latvia, 2012, 1'
Animation for Animation and Narrative class at Faculdade de Belas-Artes Universidade de Lisboa.
THE KIOSK, Anete Melece, animation, Latvia, Switzerland, 2013, 7'
For years, the kiosk has been Olga‘s little home simply because of her sweet tooth and monotonous life that have made her bigger than the exit. To distract herself, she reads travel magazines and dreams of being far away. An absurd incident starts her journey.
DOLLY'S DIAMONDS, Ernests Kļaviņš, Latvia, 2013, ?
The movie is a short animation in the genre of "road movies". The main hero is trying to escape to the border with stolen diamonds (hidden in a sex doll). Produced for the art exhibition "Summer Readings" in Cēsis (Latvia).
AN ADVENTUROUS AFTERNOON, Kiin, Germany, 2013, 6'
The film thrives on a strong visual design in conjunction with an equally strong sound and music level. The two visual artist and the two musicians have been collaborating in a few projects already in search of their way of audio-visual storytelling.