Art Academy of Latvia

A diary of an office worker’s day. A humorous look at his casual homosexual adventures turns bitter when it is revealed that he is already in a relationship with a deeply depressed, alcoholic man.

Online players try to repel a zombie invasion in a video game. The fight is not made easy, thanks to the presence of a newcomer in the pack. Chaos ensues.

An animated stop-motion short about keeping one's balance.

The film is a tragic story of a rural woman who, until the first frost in the woods, is trying to pick all the remaining mushrooms. She is running out of time and obsession with the inability to manage it gradually destroys the woman. Imperceptible from beginning, but over time already visible, just like mushrooms, the inability grows and takes over the main character.

The routine of an online computer game player is disrupted by another player. The main character abandons the rules of game to retain the new friendship.

The night watchman's usual ritual – Tetris game – is suddenly interrupted by a technical flaw. One of the surveillance cameras breaks down, and the game begins to dictate its own rules.

A portrait of a modern city. Documented and artistically interpreted life in Riga unfolds over a single summer day. Dynamic shifts between three main characters – a food courier, a tram driver, and a young girl – reveal the inhabitants’ daily trajectories and interactions with the city. A mosaic of intermittent scenes highlights nuances often lost in everyday routines, capturing the rhythm of the city and its rich urban life beyond the limits of the story.

While having an exciting summer swim and diving one after another in the water at the foot of a cliff, the main character is unexpectedly separated from the rest of his group of friends by an unsurpassable edge of the cliff and amplified experience. An animation inspired by phenomenon of acrophobia, fear of heights, 2018.

The participants of a ritual are performing a rhythmic energy discharge. Suddenly, a vibration sound comes from outside. Spectators are hurrying back to their places. A dramatic ending can begin.

Curiosity leads to success, success leads to innovation, the new creates resistance. Someone suffers.

The film is set in an isolated metalworking factory, where a metallurgist is doing only one job – endlessly casting himself from tin, to create the ideal cast from the same material he is made of. Metallurgist has an impulsive need to do this job because he is suffering from workaholism and the constant thoughts of not being perfect. The casting process happens over and over again, until one day a mouse shows up at the factory and distracts the metallurgist from his work which puts him at a halt. Can a moment of catching his breath become a part of his work process?