Little Bird’s Diary

*The project was presented at the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries

Latvia, 2007, 26’

The first Latvian documentary animation film is 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. These drawings, where the author appears as a little bird, show everything around her…everything we call life. Through the eyes of the little bird, Chiz, we get a glimpse of an earlier age.

Little Bird’s Diary is noteworthy as the first Latvian documentary animation film. Film won a National Award Lielais Kristaps for the Best Animation Short and a FIPRESCI Prize in 2007.

Directed by Edmunds Jansons

Produced by Studija Centrums