“Everyone has plans A, B, C and D. My plan is to turn them all into a synchronous reality. How else can you get impregnated by an infertile guy,” the director Joanna Rytel asks.

Swedish artist Joanna Rytel participated in RIGA IFF 2017 as a member of the jury for SHORT RIGA. One of her favoured themes is the female gaze: in “38”, her feminist short film replete with self-deprecating humour, Rytel plays tricks with fertility as her own body, reproductive cycle, and expectations of conception close in on each other.