Baltic Competition

Friday, October 25, KSuns, 21:30 - 23:30


International Father’s Day, Edmunds Jansons, animation, 2012, Latvia, 5 min

For people Father’s Day is a celebration, but for one small bird it is an ordinary working day. He has the same old concerns - to get food for his family.


The Training, Askolds Saulītis, documentary, 2012, Latvia, 5 min

This is a story of a fight between Good and Evil, of the youth triumphing over the old and experience gained in life. These eternal truths reveal themselves in the eyes of a human - the mirror of the soul. The film as an original work of art combines cinematography, music by Igor Stravinsky and martial art – judo which manifests itself in an expressive choreography. „The Rite of Spring”, a ballet by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, premiered in Paris on May 29, 1913,. Parisians were shocked and booed it. Later on the ballet was staged by Pina Bausch, Heddy Maalem and the Royal Ballet in London. „The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky was one of 27 pieces of music that was recorded on the golden disc of the NASA space probe VOYAGER in 1977. In 1990 VOYAGER left the Solar system, travelling towards alien civilizations outside the Solar system.


The Kiosk, Anete Melece, animation, 2013, Latvia / Switzerland, 7 min

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.

 


Tram, Madara Dzintara, experimental, 2012, Latvia, 2 min

 

Tram route 11 goes out for its daily round.


Mai, Maria Reinup, fiction, 2013, Estonia, 16 min

Young Mai finds herself alone in the last bus to the city with 2 drug addicts. One of them is in a quickly deteriorating situation. Failing to win the attention of the driver or the fellow passengers, she decides to intervene herself.


The Triangle Affair / Kolmnurga afar, Andres Tenusaar, animation, 2012, Estonia, 10 min

There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.


Gonzales, Vents Grīnbaums, fiction, 2013, Latvia, 8 min

When a man comes face to face with his biggest fear, he decides to go and fight it. The fight is not easy and he must sacrifice everything, but in the end he wins.


By the Border, Jurijs Skorobogatovs, fiction, 2013, Latvia, 6 min

Andris came to the forest searching for a Christmas tree, however he found some criminal gifts instead. The feeling of happiness shifted to fear when he understood that he is not entirely alone there.


The Maggot Feeder / Ussinuumaja, Priit Tender, animation, 2012, Estonia, 16 min

A man decides to kill his wife because she can’t have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach... The Maggot Feeder is an ancient Chukchi folk tale. It takes us on a journey to the darkest places of the human mind.


Lisa, Go Home! / Liza, namo!, Oksana Buraja, documentary, 2012, Lithuania, 28 min

The soul of the child does not want to reconcile with her surroundings. The film-makers made the effort to record the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family. Partially, the recorded continuing conflicts occur because Lisa is running away from home. “Why are you always running away? What are you missing?” The little girl hears these questions relentlessly. However, how is it possible to explain what is only clear to her own soul – what is within the indescribably fragile existence of a child? This is a world that is surrounded by coarse and brutal realities... How long will the child be able to resist this environment and protect her own dream?


The End, Ülo Pikkov, experimental, 2012, Estonia, 6 min

They say that the whole life runs past the person’s eyes before death. But what would a century-old filmstrip see before it finally loses its standing to digital media? The End is a tribute to film as a material.


My Condolences / Kaastundeavaldus, Margus Paju, fiction, 2013, Estonia, 15 min

 

A motive can simultaneously be an incentive for a crime and a component of the structure of an artwork. My Condolences is a story of a girl’s emancipation with both criminal and artistic motives. 
The family of cannabis-growers are surprised by their daughter’s arrival home with a strange young man. On the mother’s initiative they start to impersonate simple country folks writing a condolence note for their dead neighbor. The pleasant young man kindly agrees to help them with this task of great responsibility. A show begins, the content and motives of which are changed as the stakes are raised. But who is playing what to whom and what is this game about in the first place?