CULTURAL CLASHES

KAŅEPES CULTURE CENTRE BEAN SCREEN 29.09 / 18.30

It may seem that a collision between two different cultures is inevitable and the world different groups of people live in is a ticking bomb. However, films that can be watched within the framework of the programme “Collision of Cultures” reveal that a conflict has a thousand of faces, rather than just one. The collision of cultures is a battle field where two unyielding parties meet. However, it can also be a desperate attempt to hide and protect something different, illogical and — for this reason — special.

DEAR MARYANN, Kayee Au, Dan Carino, Lamar Reginald (Reggie) Ford, Maracel Guevarra, Corrina Nedell, Alexandre Peralta, Ning Wang, Yung Shen Yang, animation / documentary, USA 2014, 3"

Kayee describes her relationship with an Amish pen pal, Maryann.

THEY ASKED NOBODY, Martin Bureau, documentary, Canada, 2014, 9"

Israel. Palestine. A Wall between both. They asked nobody.

THE LAST ICE MERCHANT, Sandy Patch, documentary, Ecuador, 2012, 12"

For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo. His brothers, both raised as ice merchants, have long since retired from the mountain. This is a story of cultural change and how three brothers have adapted to it.

DISCIPLINE, Christophe M. Saber, fiction, Switzerland, 2014, 12"

It’s 9:50pm in a grocery store in Lausanne, Switzerland. The place is run by Egyptians. In a moment of anger, a father looses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation, they each put in their two cents and the staff is swamped. This discussion turns into a debate, which into quarrel. The situation gradually gets out of hand and into chaos…

SAFE SPACE, Zora Rux, fiction, Germany, 2014, 13"

The film tells the love story of the refugee Patrick and Sara from Berlin, who are fighting together for refugee rights in Berlin. When harmless advance turns into a sexual assault, the group is forced to rethink their aims and the private love story grows to an unwanted public dimension.

ANALOGUE PEOPLE IN A DIGITAL AGE, Keith Walsh, documentary, Ireland, 2013, 12"

As the analogue age draws to a close, eight men sit in an Irish bar and battle to remain relevant in the digital world.

IN LIMBO, Susan Gordanshekan, fiction, Germany, 2016, 20"

When Pegah realizes on her flight from Tehran to Frankfurt, that all the iranian women around her take off their scarf, she decides to do the same. After the landing, she steps out of the arrival gate full of expectations, to be welcomed by someone. But while everyone around her fall into each others arms, she remains alone. When finally the man, she waited for so long doesn’t recognize her, her first impulse is to not show herself either.
An odyssey through the airport begins and soon Pegah realizes that she is in limbo. Stuck in a transit place and unable to arrive in the new country, she decides to put on her scarf again. 

Films will be screened in the original language with Latvian subtitles.

Curator: Ildze Felsberga