SUPERBIA
Luca Tóth
Animation / Hungary / 2016
The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
CAROUSEL (MERRY-GO-ROUND)
Luka Popadic
Documentary / Portugal / 2015
The movie depicts a Serbian choir, The Singing Women of Požega, a group of enthusiastic elderly women full of life who share their daily routine with us. Through poetic pictures, seasoned with a lot of humour, we learn about their views of love, joy as well as the ephemerality of life.
NUTAG-HOMELAND
Alisi Telengut
Animation / Canada / 2016
A visual poetry and surreal requiem for the Kalmyk people that were mass-deported by USSR from 1943-1957 and half of them died before they were allowed to return home. The film manifests itself as an archetype with frame by frame hand painted imagery, bringing back a slice of human history on the eternal theme of diaspora and the loss of homeland, but more importantly, by referencing to the past and the lost, it poses a critical resistance to the current social political situations in the world.
SHE DANCES FOR PEOPLE
Nimmikaage
Michelle Latimer
Eksperimentālā / Kanāda / 2015
Both a requiem for and an honouring of Canada’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit women, Michelle Latimer’s Nimmikaage (She Dances for People) deconstructs the layers beneath the recorded pageantry of Canadian nationalism. Images of the natural world alternate with archival footage of Indigenous women asked to perform in traditional roles for an audience. The women are observed from a distance, objectified to serve the agenda of those behind the camera. But Nimmikaage reverses the colonial lens. Wide shots of the white Canadian audiences for whom these images were captured are intercut with hauntingly intimate individual close-ups of Indigenous women and girls.
BIRDZ
Emilien Davaud
Animation / Switzerland / 2016
People that look and behave like birds, try to survive the cruelness of nature.
THE ART OF FLYING
Jan van Ijken
Documentary / Netherlands / 2015
Short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show. Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave filmmaker Jan van IJken the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on earth.
Films are demonstrated in their original language with English subtitles.
More info: http://2annas.lv/en/competition/voices-of-the-ancestors/