12-07-2021

Baltic Shorts grab the spotlight at Cannes 2021

    A united group of Baltic short film organizations - Lithuanian Shorts, 2ANNAS Riga International Short Film Festival, SHORT RIGA at Riga International Film Festival, PÖFF Shorts (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival) and the Estonian Short Film Center - have banded together to showcase a number of new shorts and talk about the fact that – despite their relatively small sizes – the countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are making their mark on the international scene.

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    Collection BALTIC SHORTS  |  Short Film Corner 2021

    Attending professionals will have the chance to discover a collection called “Baltic Shorts” with the newest short films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Baltic Shorts holds ten recent shorts from Baltics produced with great artistic effort. The collection will be available on the Short Film Corner platform between 12-16 July.

    PROGRAMME:

    - LITHUANIA -

    MOTINOS | MOTHERS 
    (fiction, 15 min., 2021)

    Director Birutė Kapustinskaitė
    Producer Rūta Petronytė
    Production company ARTBOX

    TĖTUŠIS | DADDY (fiction, 14 min., 2021)
    Director Justas Ramanauskas
    Producer Viktorija Seniut
    Production company VIKTORIA FILMS

    MORA MORA (animation, 10 min., 2021)
    Director Jurga Šeduikytė
    Producer Giedrė Burokaitė
    Production company MENO AVILYS

    - LATVIA -

    COMEBACK (animation, 8 min., 2021)
    Director Vladimir Leschiov
    Producer Vladimir Leschiov
    Production company LUNOHOD

    GODA SARDZE | GUARD OF HONOUR (animation, 5 min., 2021)
    Director Edmunds Jansons
    Producer Sabine Andersone
    Production company ATOM ART

    PANIC (experimental, 6 min., 2021)
    Director Helen Ora
    Producer Reinis Kalnaellis
    Production company EGOGURU

    RESISTANCE IS FUTILE (fiction, 17 min., 2021)
    Director Armands Zacs
    Producer Alise Gelze
    Production company WHITE PICTURE


     - ESTONIA -

    KOLMAPÄEV | WEDNESDAY (fiction, 14 min., 2021)
    Director Eeva Magi
    Producer Tiina Savi
    Production company KARTULIÕIS

    KYTE | POWER (documentary, 11 min., 2021)
    Director Ivar Murd
    Producer Margus Õunapuu
    Production company ÕM

    NÄOTUVASTUS | FACE RECOGNITION (animation, 7 min., 2021)
    Director Martinus Klemet
    Producer Martinus Klemet
    Production company ANIMARTINUS

    Baltic Shorts programme


    Join the keynote - “Small Countries. Big Impacts: The Short Film Production Ecosystem of the Baltics”

    Baltic short film organizations invite international industry representatives to the keynote “Small Countries. Big Impacts: The Short Film Production Ecosystem of the Baltics” which will be held on the 15th of June, Thursday, at 10:00-11:15 a.m. (CET). This talk will give an overview of the Baltic short film industry, providing details on significant facts and figures, some of the new and exciting talents to be on the look out for from the Baltic regions and introduce (co)-production possibilities from the Baltic countries.
    *The keynote will be accessible with the Cannes Court Métrage 2021 accreditation only.


     Meet Baltic Shorts Representative in Cannes

    LAUMA KAUDZITE
    Riga International Film Festival - Short Riga
    13-16 July
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    Meet Baltic Shorts Representatives online

    RIMANTE DAUGELAITE
    Lithuanian Shorts, Vilnius International Short Film Festival

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    PETER MURDMAA
    Estonian Short Film Center
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    LAIMA GRAZDANOVICA
    2ANNAS Riga International Short Film Festival

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    For more information visit - www.lithuanianshorts.com

    Programme “Baltic Shorts” is curated and the keynote is organized by Lithuanian Shorts, 2ANNAS Riga International Short Film Festival, SHORT RIGA at Riga International Film Festival, Estonian Short Film Center. Institutional partners - Lithuanian Film Center, National Film Centre of Latvia.