The 8 TEST SCREENINGS films are split into two screenings held over two days. The panel of experts will have familiarized themselves with the projects in advance, and will give their final feedback and evaluations during the events. Before each film, the filmmakers will explain at what stage their film currently is, and what the main issues and questions that they wish to clarify are. The experts will comment and take questions after each pitch. Further communication on the projects takes place at the one to one meetings.
RIGA IFF Industry Pass holders wishing to see the projects, please contact programme representative Lauma Kaudzīte (lauma@rigaiff.lv).
Director: Anete Dance
Genre: Live Action
Country: Latvia
Estimated run time: 20′
Producer: Līga Zunde
Premiere: 2021
Stage of production: Post production
Forbidden Choice is a realistic Latvian crime drama about two punk rock youths nourishing their individual freedom, committing minor crimes and contemplating the morals of their actions. This film is an attempt to highlight the relationship between two young people in a world they’ve built – living in a self-made cottage, disobeying societal norms etc.
Director: Madli Lääne
Genre: Live Action
Country: Estonia
Estimated run time: 20′
Producer: Marianne Ostrat
Premiere: 2022
Stage of production: Post production
The banter of three teenagers gets out of hand and no one is brave enough to stop the downward spiral as an innocent flirtation turns into a violent power game.
Director: Rasa Pavilona
Genre: Animation
Country: Latvia
Estimated run time: 2′
Producer: Edmunds Jansons, Art Academy of Latvia
Premiere: 2021
Stage of production: Post production
Race cars stir hot air on a scorching race track, morphing familiar shapes into ill omens. The apparent mirages reveal processes in the human psyche and their symbiosis with the material world through symbols, but their collision is inevitable.
Director: Gaile Garnelyte
Genre: Live Action; Documentary
Country: Lithuania
Estimated run time: 25′
Producer: Laura Ratkeviciute
Premiere: 2021
Stage of production: Post production
The art of self-realisation: when a young mother IEVA leaves her small daughter to produce a musical performance with much older VADIM, she has to realise that this project leaves her with the same feelings of unfulfillment like the mother’s role. It became a modern convention to use arts and culture as THE must-be form of self-realisation as it had been the role of the caring mother before. Both put a lot of pressure on Ieva and her choices.