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Everyone has their own emotional overwhelm regarding a bad smell. Lizete, an amateur interviewer, is eager to record the moments when it is revealed. Dealing with the topic of bad odour's influences on society, this is an animated short film for adults in the inquiring style of a documentary. The director continues to work on tragi-comic stories about our natural awkwardness while finding ourselves.
Oct 2019
Tonight, Anna and her dad have decided to walk home through the forest. Anna takesa torch and dad lights it up for her. The silent nocturnal forest is as enchanting as it is scary – and the bright flameas protective as it is blindingly bright.
Oct 2018
A message brought by the wind urges a lonely man to go out to the city, but there is someone who does not want him to leave the room.
Feb 2015
While she is practicing yoga, he is looking at his phone. When he sits behind a desk, she goes to the kitchen to prepare a shake. Suddenly, the protagonists and their rituals begin to revolve around each other as if they were celestial bodies and their flat becomes the centre of the universe.
Aug 2022
A charcoal on paper animation about a motorcycling circus bear who decides to leave the daily routine and takes off to the forest where his true happiness seems to dwell.
Dec 2011
The white tranquility of mountains is disturbed by colorful winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy downhill skiing.
Feb 2024
While the parent bears are gathering reserves for the winter, the cubs are having fun with a ball of wool … A story told to the tune of a Latvian lullaby, “Hush Hush Little Bear” (‘Aijā, žūžū, lāča bērni’).
Feb 2022
In 1920, Franz Kafka wrote 120 letters to writer and journalist Milena Jesenská. A love which filled Kafka’s life with light and hope and, at the same time, illuminates his fears and the darkness in him.
Oct 2024
Once upon a time, God kneaded clay in a beet pit and jokingly created a human being with one eye, one ear, one arm, and one leg. That is how humans came to be. Not entirely good, not entirely evil...
Jun 2009
During the school summer break, nine-year-old Elizabeth joins her family in the rainforest where they live with the Pemón tribe. When, after an accident, Mum needs to fly Dad to a hospital, Elizabeth must look after her three-year-old brother Leo. However, instead of minding her brother, she gets lost in her sketchbook. When Elisabeth finally looks up, she discovers that Leo has disappeared, and all signs suggest he wandered into the jungle. Now she must trade her books for bravery not only to find Leo, but also to rescue a mystical furry creature from captivity and return it to its family at the legendary Tepui mountain, all before their parents come back home.
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Oct 2015
Summer adventure story about two kids who spend summer in city suburb, where together with talking dogs they rescue the romantic wooden-house neighborhood from reconstruction.
Feb 2019
In the middle of a grey sea there is a grey isle. On this grey island grey hunters live. The life is simple and harsh. Seals and hunters live together in a cruel balance. One day, the Photographer arrives to document this everyday life. For him it turns out to be deadly complicated. The film is an absurd comedy about the unstoppable desire to see the surrounding through one's preconceptions.
May 2014
In the deep countryside of Latgale, Latvia, relatives and neighbours, near and far, come together to celebrate the last important ritual of human life. A series of events and details reveal a picture in which two different eras overlap.
Oct 2023
A world-famous boys' choir goes on a tour. In the hands of their severe conductor they are an obedient musical instrument. But left alone without supervision, they are just playful children. Once in Seoul the conductor is accidentally trapped in the elevator, and the boys are left alone.
Dec 2012
Pigtail loves the winter holidays, but this year, shortly before Christmas, Brother comes into the world, turning everything upside down. Grandmother arrives from the countryside, because Pigtail’s parents no longer have time to take her skating, but Pigtail and her best friend, Mr. Sleeplessness, don’t like the new order. They come up with a plan – to send Brother and Grandmother to the Moon, in a bid to reclaim parental attention.
Sep 2017
Little children have a bad habit of sucking their thumbs, so in the old days mothers used to frighten them with the Scissorman - a tailor who will cut-off fingers with a big pair of scissors. This film is about the Scissorman.
Sep 2005
Shammies are playing Chutes and Ladders. Sockie is not doing too well, she would rather do something else, like, got married. But to whom?
The little friends Lupatiņi—Sockie, Mitten, Pillowie, and Hanky—go to wash up in the evening. They discover that there is no bathroom monster, get to know water and the faucet, enjoy swimming, and compose a song about washing for the Cat.
Jan 2010