BSF Side Bar Seminars

Tuesday,
September 7

Cinema K.Suns
Elizabetes 83/85, Riga

from 11:00 to 17:00

Seminar on animation and documentary film interaction

Lecturers:

Karsten Kiilerich

A Film

Denmark

Sylvie Bringas

Animus Films

UK

Bruno Aščuks

Studija Centrums

Latvia

Working Language:

English

Tuesday,
September 7

Cinema K.Suns
Elizabetes 83/85, Riga

at 18:00

Documentary animation short film screenings

Films:

When Life Departs

dir. Karsten Kiilerich, Stefan Fjeldmark, A.Film, TV2 Danmark, Dimino Film/ Denmark, 1997, 10’

 Children’s attitudes toward death are explored in this genre-transgressing film which combines documentary authenticity with subtle and fantasy inducing animation.
Silence

dir. Orly Yadin, Sylvie Bringas, Halo Productions/ UK, 1998, 11’

 Tana Ross, a victim of the Holocaust, tells her personal story of survival, and of the years of enforced silence that followed.
Little Bird’s Diary

dir. Edmunds Jansons, Studija Centrums/ Latvia, 2007, 26’

The first Latvian documentary animation film based on unique drawings from the diary of 80 year-old Irīna Piļke, encompassing a period from the end of WWII until the beginning of the 80s.
Life Stories

dir. Rao Heidmets, Rao Heidmetsa Filmistuudio / Estonia, 2007, 28’

A selection of Estonian life stories from the period of 1920 – 2004, combining documentary film with animation on the screen.
Grandpa and Grandma

dir. Giedre Beinoriūte, VG Studio/ Lithuania, 2007, 30’

Based on on a life story of director’s grandparents who were exiled to Siberia by Soviets in 1948 told in a personal way with archive material and animation inserts.

Friday,
September 10

Cinema K.Suns
Elizabetes 83/85, Riga

from 16:00 to 18:00
Seminar on the question of ethics in documentary films

in cooperation with the Danish Cultural Institute

Lecturers:

Jacob Mollerup

Denmark

Tarmu Tammerk

Estonia

Kim Minke

Denmark

Simon Drewsen Holmberg

Denmark

Working Language:

English