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Can’t Help Myself

Can’t Help Myself

Can't Help Myself

Anna Ansone | Latvia | 2022 | 19' |

| IFFR 2023

A social contradiction is encapsulated in the opening image: a woman sunbathing on a rooftop is revealed to be located, incongruously, right above a busy office in Riga. Then the action shifts to a beach, where the same tension is evident: work is repetitive and unglamorous, while a self-help audio promises peace and contentment.

Anna Ansone’s poignant, witty portrait asks: what’s the point of such fantasy in a world that forbids us to change?

– Adrian Martin

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Issues with My Other Half
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Dividing the body and the tools it uses: Anna Vasof’s neo-Švankmajer avalanche of digital gags.
Haar handen
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A silent meditation on a woman’s fingers by Super-8 master Jaap Pieters.
Conviértete en quien eres
Short & Mid-length
The unassuming, poetic portrait of a domestic space during pandemic times: a rotoscopic, yin-yang dance.
Lingua morta
Short & Mid-length
Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects.
La voz rosa
Short & Mid-length
A process of learning where empathy and self-awareness are intertwined in a beautiful feminine-universe fresco.