FILM PROGRAMMES - BALTIC, COMPETITION I, COMPETITION II
2ANNAS 2007
I COMPETITION PROGRAMME
Dormouse |
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BOB |
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In a huge industrial plant, slave labourers scurry about, transferred and reformated by mobile clocking-in-machines. A playful comment on language as a tool, seen trough a highly stylized world of graphics and sound. |
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No name |
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Divide in thoughts, non-existing in real space. Ignoring inessential aspects, who account extrinsic to accordant visual dot or who realize isn’t possible. |
Five angry things |
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In a place where time twists, five creatures are caught in a endless cycle as a direct result of their actions |
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Safety-matches |
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Action is turning up at 80th near Inešu lake. |
Mordicus |
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Near a cemetry an undertaker keeps a shop which specializes in making customized coffins. But his booming business is suddenly put to a gruelling test. |
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Life worth living |
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Life Worth Living is a tragicomedy of sadness and apathy, an episodic study of our way of grasping to the little pieces of joy in everyday life. |
Hearing Aid |
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On her 60th birthday, Hanna and her husband Shimon go to a Beethoven Concert. |
Perfect Harmony |
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The poetic and dreamlike portrait of a stringed-instrument maker in his workshop in the middle of the forest. |
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Dog and Dream |
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If we hear a story of an everyday life in a dream, what it could seem to us? |
Zeitgeist |
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During a serene voyage to her late grandfather's house, a young woman and her estranged boyfriend stumble upon an old camera. What seems at first as an innocent encounter, unearth an uncanny and unnerving past. |
Abigail |
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As the gap between a burning airplane and the ground gets smaller, the passengers pass the time... |
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2ANNAS 2007
II COMPETITION PROGRAMME
458nm |
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Two mechanical snails meet in the moonlight, but their romantic rendezvous is interrupted by a shadow... |
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Japenese Trend |
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The story of tree young depressed persons who met in an internet chat and decide to commit suicide together |
Aided Migration |
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Finally, it's time for Sureau to get his long awaited migration, the big trip, the love season! Yet whilst he heartily gets ready to leave, Sureau is diagnosed with a nitrogen allergy. From now on, he will have to fly by plane, alongside the other cripples |
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The Eye of a Cyclone |
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After an argument with the Rain Man, Igor's mother Rosetta turns into a storm, and sweeps Igor away. surreal vision of daily life through the eyes of a child. |
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Hilda & Karl |
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Hilda, a young factory worker, is in love with foreman Karl. But how can she win his heart, when she`s too timid to confess her affection? Getting accidentally hold of his wallet seems like a golden opportunity. But then things get twisted. |
Cocktails, nibbles and fangs |
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Madeleine, an unfailingly professional and unflappable registration officer, meets Morfago, a giant, who puts her info more than mild fluster...not least due to the gigantic jaw behind his ear. |
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Western eyes |
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Appletree |
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Gardeners and their problems with neighbours. |
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Topless and bottomless |
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S. gets ready to begin yet another average day. He sits down at his desk, ready and eager to get stuck into a pile of work, when he suddenl stops dead in his tracks. Before his eyes, sitting at a desk that looks exactly like his own, is a completely naked man. |
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The adventures of John and John |
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Coffieterror |
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Coffee Terror is aboud how people react towards other people in their busy everyday life, which actually means that they don’t react. Preben is kidnapped at his office by a bomb terrorst, while his colleagues are just staring at the epsode and sipping from their cups of coffee. |
O |
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The search for the last remaining drop of water symbolizes the return to purity, to pure emotions and amazement in a superficial era where life is dominated by fast-changing technology, where man has lost touch with nature. |
2ANNAS 2007
BALTIC COMPETITION
| Frizētava/ Hairdresser’s Rež. Kristīne Kursiša, 2006, Latvija |
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Recently on the Gogolu street there was a small, humble barber shop. On the shop window it said „Hairdresser and Manicure”. The owner of the barber shop, lady with a dyed hair, is honest and happily gives a reciept. Just as happy are other two laydies, which wait for clients for hours. |
| Annabel Lee/ Annabel Lee Rež. Dace Tukiša, 2007, Latvija |
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Wanted to incorporate image, sound and text. |
| Balts fons/ White Background Rež. Andrejs Kostromins, 2007, Latvija |
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Sonya cannot find harmony in her soul. She feels herself unhappy and lonely, having no harmony and understanding of the surrounding world of people (symbolized by flies). People irritate and cause pain to her only. All she does is needless and useless (according to video, dissapears completely). But at the certain moment she falls in love... She understands that it is so easy to make people happy... |
| Nervu kamuoliukas/ Neurotic ball Rež. Linas Tranas , 2007, Lietuva |
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This is a story about a boy who suffers teasing and consequently starts wrapping a Neurotic ball. However, his life doesn't become better. and suddenly one day he tears out his last hair... |
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| Kust/ Kust Rež. Dāvis Kaņepe, 2007, Latvija |
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For eight year old Gatis understanding of world is different than his parents. Despite his efforts misunderstandings can’t be avoided. |
| Želejkūka/ Jellycake Rež. Elīna Ļihačeva, 2006, Igaunija |
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Two couples meet at home party. Women begin competition who has the best skills doing chores. Men doesn’t seem to have any luck. |
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| Pārslodze/ Overcharge Rež. Oskars Pavlovskis, 2005, Latvija |
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| More & more & more/ More & more & more Rež. Laimonas Zakas, 2007, Lietuva |
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Animation made with more than 15.000 lithuanian 1 cent coins by the Funkstorung's song More & more & more. |
| Tablete/ Tablet Rež. Maksims Paseka, 2006, Latvija |
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Animation gag. |
| Desmit Kosmonauti/ Ten Cosmonauts Rež. Krišjānis Ābols, 2007, Latvija |
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It all started when government secret service felt the need to travel in space. This experimental work plays with Latvian saying: if lady had wheels, she’d be tram.” This film asks question: what if a girl would be a tree? |
| Ja/ If Rež. Agnese Ivane, Igaunija, 2007 |
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| Starp mums ir nodeveejs! kursh vainiigs? kursh?/ Among us there is betrayer! who is to blame? who? Rež. Dacija Dumbrau, 2007, Latvija |
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Film is based on an excerpt from Hamlet by Shakespeare. It tells a story about young people, which are thrown in the world of cruel and senseless fights. There is only one way out from that… |
| B-83-9/ B-83-9 Rež. Mikus Trautmanis, 2007, Latvija |
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In an apartment two agressive ideologies live. They try to beat each other, but is it possible to win at all? |
| Pie blakus galdiņa/ At proximal table Rež. Didzis Eglītis, 2007, Latvija |
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Silent movies style – situation in a café. |
| Sudameasjad/ Heartlessness Rež. Mihkel Ulk, 2007, Igaunija |
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A young yuppie’s girlfriend belittles his success-oriented attitude towards |
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| Pāri galvām/ Over Heads Rež. Astra Zoldnere, 2006, Igaunija |
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Story about a boy and a girl walking around a city and playing with reflections in the balloon. Troubles begin when balloon is lost. As she looks for it she mistakes one boy with another. |
| kungi dzeriet etiķi/ doob! Rež. Vents Grīnbaums, 2007, Latvija |
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Daniil Harm sometimes worries that there is too much meaning in his stories. |
| Konkurss/ Audition Rež. Margus Paju, 2006, Igaunija |
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George is a contrabass player who sleeps in on the day of admission at the Music Academy. He also breaks his bow prior to it and performs the wrong pieces at his audiotion. But that's not all that fate has in store for him that day. |
| Moments/ Moment Rež. Helmuts Apsis, 2006, Latvija |
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This is not a music video. |
| Pavasaris/Spring Rež. Mara Valtiņa, 2007, Latvija |
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A poem about spring coming. |
























