LIFE ELSEWHERE

KAŅEPES CULTURE CENTRE BEAN SCREEN 01.10 / 17.00

Unprecedented happenings once again marked this year with terrorist attacks becoming daily occurrence around the world and armed conflicts threat for many. Lack of safety on one side and poverty and economic uncertainty on the other has driven millions from their homes and into that dangerous and perilous path of migration causing one of the greatest waves of human migration in recent history.

This specially curated program for 2Annas brings a petite flavor of those talents working abroad proving that life may be elsewhere but future is here, The program intentionally starts with a short film of a Bosnian author that depicts the moment of farewell, and goes on with three different immigrant stories, taking us from Norway to US and then takes us to a set for a visual exploration of displacement, and the longings and desires of their inhabitants.

NOTE ON MULTITUDE, Ibro Hasanovic, documentary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015, 8"

Farewell that goes from the emotional to the violent, ending in exhaustion. Men, women and children kiss goodbye and try to board on the busses that will take them into uncertain future of migrants.

THE GOOD LIFE - OVER THERE, Izer Aliu, fiction, Norway, 2014, 27"

Sami is an illegal worker in Oslo that minds his own business and breaks his back to support a family in his home country. When forced to babysit the son of a boss he admires, and aims to become like, Sami faces the choice we all try to balance on a daily basis; family and work. Both require loyalty. Both want dedication. Both change us, but whichever we spend most time with changes us in its own direction.

LENA AND ME, Blerta Basholli, fiction, Kosovo, 2011, 13"

Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their parents. The comic and ironic moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for themselves too. Until it lasts.

MIRAGE, Srdjan Keca, documentary, Serbia, 2011, 42"

At the edge of a city growing from the desert, a man plays alone on a golf course. Another, sleepless, sends a letter from a labour camp to his wife in Kenya. A sand storm hits a construction site, and the locals hold a strange celebration. The city of Dubai and its surrounding desert here become a set for a visual exploration of displacement, and the longings and desires of their inhabitants.

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

Curator: Eroll Bilibani