THE STRUGGLE

BALTIC SHORT FILM COMPETITION THE STRUGGLE

29.09 / 18.00 / KSUNS

MUSHROOMS. I HAVE NO
TIME 
Lizete Murovska
Animation / Latvia / 2014 / 5’01’’
She has to pick all the remaining mushrooms before the first frost comes.

BEATS OF THE EMPTY LAND
Reinis Spaile
Fiction / Latvia / 2015 / 28’
Fourteen year old Arvids lives in a
small village and spends most of his
time daydreaming about his future
plans together with his best friend
Klavs.

JACKIE 
Giedrius Tamoševičius
Fiction / Lithuania / 2015 / 21’57’’
Tom’s parental rights are restricted.
He can see his daughter Urte only
in child protection agency’s office in
the presence of agency’s supervisor
and his ex-wife. Tom still has Urte’s
beloved toy Jackie, but can’t come to
terms with the situation and decides to
kidnap his daughter.

CANDY 
Laila Pakalniņa
Fiction / Latvia, Estonia / 2015/ 4’
Murderer is wanted in the city.
Although nobody has been murdered –
as we find out at the end of the film. In
any case – greetings to Fritz Lang, our
source of inspiration!

LIFE WITH HERMAN H.ROTT
Chintis Lundgren
Animation / Estonia / 2015 / 11’06’’
Herman is a rat who enjoys heavy
drinking, loud grind music and chess.
He doesn’t care much for cleaning
and the disorder in his apartment only
makes him feel more at home.
One day a very tidy cat who has a
weakness for messy macho-men,
decides to move in.