Estrogen in Baltic Animation

Friday, October 24, Riga Film Museum, 16:00-17:30*

*The program will be accompanied by the commentory by the festival's program director and animation specialist Anna Veilande - Kustikova. The commentary will be in English.

Animation is a time-consuming process, it asks for persistence, patience and endurance. 2ANNAS asks a question: what makes a woman sit by a light table, a skeleton of a doll or a story board and how do they succeed in that?



Hallogija / The Great Grey Shrike, Chintis Lundgren, Estonia, 2009, 6 min

The Great Grey Shrike is a strange wildlife-story about the very peculiar manners of the great grey shrike, the common cuckoo, starlings and other birds.


Birth, Signe Baumane, USA/Italy, 2009, 12 min

A young woman Amina (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.

Song of Songs, Urte Budinaite, Lithuania, 2010, 4 min

A Woman and A Man have a vital fight about an empty carton of milk. Based on King Solomon’s Song of Songs, the painted animation shows graphically stylized silhouettes that gradually transform and interact with parts of text.

Laima Determines the Destiny / Taip Laima leme, Jūratė Leikaite, Lithuania, 2011, 14 min

 

Mythical creatures, pixies, determine the destiny of a human. Humans cannot predict what kind of fate awaits them. Some are lucky to get happiness and wealth, others have to do with misfortune and hardships. Do not look for fortune.
If you are among the chosen ones, it will come. 
The film is based on the Lithuanian folk tales about different destinies.

Vilma Doesn’t Work Today, Anete Melece, Latvia, 2007, 9 min

 

 

It is a story about Varis - a man with four bags beneath his eyes, Mirdza - seller of the sour cream, an old Lung that spat a chewing gum in the face of a Mitten, and a Megapixel, which slowly digitizes the world. Vilma has nothing to do with all of this, this is her day off, so there is a slim chance of finding a hair in your food.



Zima / Winter, Ingrīda Pičukāne, Estonia, 2010

It is a story about an old hat’s love towards its owner.

 


Sister and Brother, Roze Stiebra, Maija Brence, Latvia, 2009, 7 min

Is it a dream about one’s own symbolic meaning of America, or a dream to return home? In this film a sister and a brother dream about the same adventures but they do it in their own dreams…


Fairytails - Kekatdancis, Roze Stiebra, Maija Brence, Latvia, 1996, 2 min

A tale about Latvian folk traditions based on poem by the famous Latvian poet Ojars Vacietis.

Fly Mill, Anu Laura Tuttleberg, Estonia, 2011, 8 min

The protagonist is a miller who lives in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings that he wishes to set free one day. However, hunters go to a field next to his house to shoot birds.