THE THIRD POINT
Dir.: Alina Taalman
2018 | 19 min
United States
Fillming location: Estonia
Kolmas Punkt loosely follows the disjointed narrative of Taalman’s mother’s family archive, specifically the torn pages of letters written by her father at sea. He was a sailor, originally from Estonia, born at the turn of the last century. Before learning to navigate by the stars, he grew up in his father's photo studio - one of the first in the country. The film is an attempt to find what is missing, or just out of reach; the un-photographed landscapes, the words left unspoken, the memories of another, the distant third point.
In Estonian with Latvian and English subtitles.
OUMOUN
Dir.: Fairuz Ghammam
2017 | 15 min
Belgium
Filming location: Tunisia
‘Dear grandma, you’ll be surprised to hear my voice in your language...’ Those are the first words in a prerecorded, spoken letter never sent but instead played aloud in real time by the Brussels filmmaker to her elderly grandmother in Mahdia, Tunisia. In the company of the camera, the lines easily turn into a voice over that, merely by listening and looking attentively, in turn gradually transforms into a dialogue across languages, across cultures, across generations.
In Arabic with Latvian and English subtitles.
ADAPTATION
Dir.: Manne
2017 | 20 min
Armenia
This experimental film is a picture of real life on the screen, the types of people living in the city, the impressions of the Yerevan Days are the focal point of the film, every moment of the life adapted to the different moods and moments of life, we do not feel the flow of time
In Armenian with Latvian and English subtitles.
