Character Voice (voice)
Ilze Burkovska, una niña obsesionada con las historias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que será cineasta en un futuro lejano, vive en Letonia bajo la bota totalitaria de los soviéticos y la ominosa sombra de las muchas amenazas y horrores de la Guerra Fría.
Sound Director
“Hike '44" is a personal story by director Lauris Abele and cinematographer Marcis Abele about how to maintain humanity when the world falls apart. The protagonist of the film, Melita Abele (89), retraces her refugee path from 1944, when, at the age of 14, she had to leave her home at the beginning of winter. Asking strangers for shelter, spend nights in the woods until she found refuge and warm hearts. Through the use of animation, the viewer will be guided through Melita's memories on a journey through recent and present-day Latvia until a series of events brings Melita to what she has been trying to accomplish for 75 years.
Music
Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their way through the urban traffic, they have become silent and sometimes unnoticed witnesses of everyday life in Riga as well as examples of our modern-day society. What is freedom to this bunch of rebellious messengers and where it ends?
Sound Director
Little Ani is the only child in an ordinary family. As all children, Ani likes to ask her parents unexpected and surprising questions, but they fail to give satisfactory answers. It’s her favourite plush toy Weasymartenette who always knows the best and funniest answers. We discover that all those puzzling questions such as “Why do wolves howl at the moon?” or “Why are clouds so odd-shaped?” have a single answer: because of Weasymartenette!
