Programme

We will kick off the festival’s opening night with the anthology "Ten Minutes Older: Trumpet" (2002), directed by such luminaries as Aki Kaurismäki, Victor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Spike Lee, and Chen Kaige. Each story reveals a moment when a few minutes can change a life - amidst tension, humor, and deeply personal experiences.

Free entry
Creative Factory "Veldze" (Matīsa Street 8, Riga)

From April 10 to May 4, the RAA space at the Creative Factory "Veldze" will host the 30th-anniversary exhibition of the Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, titled "ALTERNATĪVA: Traces from the Underground". The exhibition is one of the central events of 2ANNAS’ anniversary year, presenting the festival’s thirty-year history not as a linear retrospective, but as a living cultural process. At its core is the alternative as a necessity for other forms, voices, and spaces where it is possible to think, create, and view beyond the familiar.

The exhibition’s opening times

• April 11th and April 12th: 12:00–20:00
• April 15th, April 16th, April 17th: 16:00–20:00
• April 18th and April 19th: 12:00–20:00
• April 22nd, April 23th, April 24th: 16:00–20:00
• April 25th, April 26th: 12:00–20:00
• April 28th, April 29th: 16:00–20:00
• May 1st, May 2nd, May 3rd: 12:00–20:00

Free entry
Creative Factory "Veldze", RAA Space (Matīsa Street 8, Riga)

At the 2ANNAS ISFF opening event, we will introduce the festival jury and provide more detailed information about the festival’s schedule and program. During the event, festival producer Emīls Alps will showcase his performance titled “30 Hertz.” The performance will combine archival materials from the festival with oscilloscope sound visualizations and the aesthetics of contemporary electronic music.

Entry by invitation only!
Creative Factory “Veldze” (Matīsa Street 8, Riga)

Roberts Gobziņš will kick off the informal part of the opening night, and refreshments will be provided by Mūrbūdu Cider and the Labietis Brewery.

Free entry
Creative Factory "Veldze" (8 Matīsa Street, Riga)

R E A C T I V I T Y returns with its 4th phase: delivered by DORA GRAY, METAPHOR & EKVA.

Dora Gray is a DJ and vinyl enthusiast from Turku, Finland, who has become particularly well known in recent years for her diverse, rhythm-driven, electro-focused DJ sets both in Finland and abroad.  In addition to electro, Dora loves techno, IDM, breakbeat, and especially acid sounds, genres she often combines. Her love of art, culture, and film guides her distinctive style of making dramatic track choices that always aim to tell the listener a story.

DJ Metaphor has been moving crowds since the 90s - delivering timeless techno and electro through an ever-growing vinyl collection.A true pioneer of Latvia’s electronic movement!

And yours truly - EKVA. Atmospheric electro is hers trademark sound. Dark, punchy, sometimes melancholy, sometimes from another dimension all blended together to a grim but always danceable mixture of her own kind.

Tickets are available at bezrindas.lv (EUR 5) and at the entrance to the event (EUR 7)
Kaņepes Kultūras centrs (Skolas Street 15, Rīga)