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Standing near the reptile section in a zoo for 26 minutes we can learn a lot about the animals on both sides of the separating glass.

Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone

Julius, who devours comic books and vampire stories, has a lively imagination. Julius meets Arnold Cautious, who lives in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town and introduces himself as a degenerated, strawberry juice-drinking vampire. Julius and Cautious become friends. Together they try to make the Lucky Stone, the recipe for which is in Cautious' grandmother's secret recipe book. Julius wants to give the stone to his estranged parents so they can rediscover their common happiness. Julius and Arnold's laboratory attempts to make the Lucky Stone falter badly time and time again, but they stubbornly pursue their quest for happiness.

Screw It!

Screw It takes us into a world in which all living creatures have a screw in their back, that has to be winded up regularly. If not, the body freezes into a lifeless doll. In the domicile of the renowned art collector Viktoria, we get to know Helen and her brother Henri, who work as assistant and butler in Viktoria's service. When the siblings want to snatch the heart of Viktoria's collection - The Golden Tit - the renowned art collector is facing the end of her great career. Helen and Henri confront Viktoria with her dark past and teach her a ribald lesson.

The Buzz in the Void

Ainars has been a principal of a local music school for forty years until he is unexpectedly fired. Ainars feels betrayed. Seeing him unhappy, his wife Anita decides to act. When the new principal candidate arrives at the music school, the world created by the two of them collapses. The new suppresses the old and it just seems that everything that has been done before is left in vain.

I Find Myself in You

A couple that does not fit into society’s accepted norms regarding women and men. Routine problems of everyday life that tend to take on immeasurable amplitudes push the film’s leads into a most intimate confinement, one in which thoughts and the answers to problems lead to dreams.

1906

A year has passed since the turbulent events of the 1905 revolution. The secret police has almost eradicated the network of social democratic fighters. Only one group continues fighting and a bold assault on a factory cash desk is being planned. A low ranking fighter Grey is assigned to lead the operation. Meanwhile, Grey starts an affair with a young poetess Violet and gets to know the flamboy-ant crowd of decadent artists and writers. Inspired by Violet Grey takes a look at revolution from a different perspective. Meanwhile Violet gradually gets involved in the dangerous world of revolutionary fighters. November 1906 in Riga is still remembered as a month of crazy bohemia and violent terror.

Night Shift

Imants is a security guard at a small town store. He is always nice, honest and truthful and would not let anything happen to the store and to the people that are working there, until one night when his honesty and truthfulness are set to a test. He has been given a choice – stay and be dishonest with himself or leave and open has hart to love. The choice seems easy, but it takes some courage to step out of a place where you have been for ages.

Viestur Kairish Comes Out Of The Woods

A tragicomic tale about the relationship of Guna and the twice older writer Gints. Guna has lost her job, but Gints hasn’t written anything in years. Whilst running away from an unsatisfactory relationship and the lack of creative self-expression, Guna gets obsessed with the theatre performance “Odyssey” by the famous director Viestur Kairish and begins to mix reality with theatre. Guna tries to start a new life, but her fantasy world doesn’t allow her to be a part of reality anymore.

Robbery 101

After another successful con, two reasonably experienced con-men - Richard and Harry, - come to a conclusion that this has become too easy and even boring and they decide to expand their horizons.

Intermission Zoja

The fancy car thief Zigis goes stealing again, and an incidental opera performance viewer becomes the victim. Zigis does his job perfectly, but the delivery of the vehicle is halted by Zoja, who has fallen down near her house and is now on the road, laying there, helplessly mumbling. An unwilling offering of first aid takes Zigis to a house surrounded by trees, where, between passion and secrets, everyone tries to gain more than lose.