ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM OF 2007, 4th to 6th march
Overall duration: 90'22''
This program was created in honor of the 10th anniversary of the film festival and is composed of films, that received most of the votes.
ATTENTION! The screening will have a voting for the best film of the program, don't forget to take a pencil with you!
The program is shown with latvian and russian subtitles.
Fetch Lynn-Maree Danzey / Australia / 1998 / 06'30''
The first date turns out to be a much stronger experience than the usual anxiety of a girl preparing herself.
Cannes 1998 participant, best in the short film comedy category, in Melbourne film festival 1999.
Kareoke Man Adolfo Doring / USA / 2003 / 10'22''
Karaoke man Bred Prauli walks to work with his old recorder on his shoulder. His thoughts, observations, his emotions become the base of this unique documentary...
Grand-prix of the 2003 Manhattan Short Film Festival.
The Light of DarknessMichael Cargile / USA / 1998 / 09'00’’
Help comes in the most unexpected disguise at the time when you as it seems don't even need it.
OffsideErez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv / Israel / 2006 / 07'00’’
One ostacle, four fans and the game of their lives.
Grand-prix at The Manhattan Short Film Festival 2006, special jury prize at the Palm-Springs 2007 film festival, special prize at the Toronto 2007 film festival.
Fait d’HiverDirk Beliën / Belgium / 2001 / 07'15''
A somewhat nervous manager, just a little more over thirty gets into traffic on his way from work. It's cold and a blizzard makes the road seem longer.
That's when he decides to get his new mobile phone and call home.
Nominated for Oscar in 2003, best short film at the Sant-Louise 2002 film festival, and five awards from different international film festivals.
Little TerroristAshvin Kumar / India / 2004 / 15'04''
Little Jamal was playing in cricket with friends, when the ball accidently lands behind a barbed wire, on the territory of Pakistan, hostile to India.
Grand-prix at The Manhattan Short Film Festival 2004, Oscar 2005 nomenee, best short film at the Montreal 2005 film festival, and other thirty prizes at various big international festivals and more than a hundred non-competition screenings.
BorderAnette Solakoglu / USA / 2001 / 07'40''
Step after step, the same road, the same sky and fields - the protagonist is walking along the road, but what will stop his meditative state?
OffsideLeanna Kril / USA / 2000 / 12'35''
The film tells a story about a 1914 Christmas eve, somewhere on the west front during the First World War, german and english soldiers declared cease of fire to play football...
First prize in the short film category at the Montreal 2001 film festival, best short film at Milan 2001 film festival, viewers choice award at San-Paulo 2001 film festival.
Black & White WorldAdam White / Australia / 2005 / 09'26''
Fantasy and emotions rampage are forcing a black and white mute comedy film's protagonist far beyond the world he has come to know.
Special jury prize at the Rome contemporary film festival 2005.
Playing Hard to GetTim Bullock / Australia / 2001 / 05'30''
Musicians in a jazz quartet dispute the attention of a beautiful lady in a bar, playing their instruments to the limit.