Līga Požarska

Līga Požarska is a Latvian film journalist and a pre-selection committee member for Riga International Film Festival’s short film programme. She frequently collaborates with other short film festivals across the Baltics. Her bylines include Kino Raksti, Cineuropa and Talking Shorts. Līga is currently pursuing a degree in philology.

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Breaking The Norm

Interview with Isadora Neves Marques by Līga Požarska

After an impressive European festival run, Isadora Neves Marques’ newest short celebrates its North-American premiere at the New York Film Festival this week. In an interview with Līga Pozarska, she talks about (in)fertility, couple dynamics and gender roles.

Films Archive

Agrilogistics

Staging Tulips

Review by Līga Požarska

Gerard Ortín Castellví mixes his anthropological interests with his creative curiosities and turns his camera towards automated greenhouses in Agrilogistics.

Films Now Showing

Tracing Utopia

Chasing Acceptance

Review by Līga Požarska

The aspirations of LGBTQIA+ youth is at the centre of Tracing Utopia as much as the generation gap between millennials and GenZ is.

Films Archive

The Bite

Nervous Anticipations

Review by Līga Požarska

Cross-referencing politics and body politics, reproduction and pandemics, Isadora Neves Marques creates a juxtaposition between a warning dystopia and a dangerous reality.

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Symbiosis

Patterns Of Modern Jealousy

Review by Līga Požarska

In Symbiosis, Hungarian animator Nadja Andrasev tells the story of a deceived wife who starts a bizarre investigation of her husband’s infidelities.

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Breaking The Norm

Agrilogistics

Staging Tulips

Tracing Utopia

Chasing Acceptance

The Bite

Nervous Anticipations

Symbiosis

Patterns Of Modern Jealousy