Uta Doki! Pop Classics Vol.12

The Ant and the Elephant

过桥

独木桥

水鹿 Two young sociopaths are bested by an old blind woman and an ancient deer spirit.

Nves eei... The film combines everyday situations that characterize the railway workers' environment with the stories of locomotive drivers, their superstitions, drinking traditions, desires, and dreams, depicting Latvian post-Soviet proletarian society.

八百鞭子

He's a Growing Boy, She'... Two main characters, a young gay man, and his female (heterosexual) boss exchange stories about their personal problems, (his difficulties about being gay, and his fears about losing his job because of it). She talks of her neglectful husband whom she suspects is having an affair with another woman.

Pornographer: Playback Kijima and Kuzumi, showing the problems they face as they try to move forward in their lives, and how they drift apart while still yearning to be together. A story of love and life, and fantasies and failures of a novelist and his lover.

喵呜是谁叫的

A World Apart World War II separated the Latvian nation into two parts. Fleeing Soviet occupation, a large part of the people left their homeland by the Baltic Sea and sought refuge in the West. New York’s Hell’s Kitchen district became their home and the core of Latvian cultural exiles became young poets and artists. The film traces across half a century to show their life today and what has happened to those young writers and poets (the Troubadour – Gunars Silins, the Internal Dissident – Janis Kreslins, Philosopher the Dionisios – Robert Muks, the Estranged One – Rita Gale, the Observer – Aina Kraujiete, the Outsider – Dzintars Sodums) in their effort to combine the trends of global culture with their ethnic identity, when two cultures, Latvian and American, intersected.