Film club Coffee&Cigarettes in cooperation with Tour de Film (St. Petersburg) will be presenting the famous american short film festival MANHATTAN SHORT the first time in Latvia on a big screen.

From 4 to 20 march 2010 Riga and Valmiera will host programs from previous three years:
Anniversary program of 2007 — from 4 to 6 march
Competition program of 2008 — from 11 to 13 march
Competition program of 2009 — from 18 to 20 march
More detailed schedule

And already this autumn in Latvian cinemas at the same time as all around the world, the competition program of 2010 will be shown, and the voice of our country will be counted for the best short film of 2010!

Once we cross, there is no return... A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances they would never hope for.

A little girl feels ignored, and family bonds shatter, when her mother and father get a cat.

Alcides Soares is a sixteen-year-old AIDS orphan, one of half a million living in Mozambique today. An American television writer (Neal Baer) and movie director (Chris Zalla) gave Alcides a movie camera and taught him how to shoot. The result is a moving chronicle directed by Alcides himself. His journey to find a family and make a new life in a country that has been ravaged by AIDS is a story repeated millions of times everyday throughout Africa

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself... If he wants to open a door, sit on a chair, or pick up the phone, from now on he just has to do so from 91 centimetres away.

The story of a busy executive going to retrieve something from his car only to find the car commandeered by someone else.

Andrea and Felice are two kids whose lives centre around the sea. One day during a fishing excursion their usual routine is disturbed when something unexpected appears from the water.

Whilst Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly loved for years, everything goes wrong until she discovers the impossible - to sculpt her appearance like clay to any shape she desires.

Doina wants to make a birthday present to her young sister, but she has to risk her own life to get it.

Two kids stand in front of an Israeli flag in an elementary schoolyard while the Remembrance Day siren is due to silence them. As it wails, enters a weary Palestinian man who plays a dangerous game with a squad of armed Israeli soldiers.

Caught up in the middle of a divorce, shark obsessed oddball Boris persuades his parents to take him to the coast where a shark has been sighted, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to get them back together. The trip is ruined when Boris's mother brings her lover and he must face the fact that his parents are never going to be reconciled.