Anna Ansone

Directing

Anna Ansone

Place of birth

Riga

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Anna Ansone (1993) is a Latvian film director. Ansone studied at the National Film School in Riga and completed her postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). Her graduation film, Still Life (2020), was shown at numerous short film festivals and won the West-Art Jury prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In 2022, Can’t Help Myself (2022) won Best Short at Riga International Film Festival and screened at Rotterdam in 2023.

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Behind the camera

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Latvian artist Ulla's grant in Rostock leads to a solo show in her sister Darta's city. Amid rising family tensions and an unreachable mother, Ulla and pregnant Darta embark on a transformative journey home, facing unresolved emotions and fractured relationships.

Summer Blues

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Latvian artist Ulla's grant in Rostock leads to a solo show in her sister Darta's city. Amid rising family tensions and an unreachable mother, Ulla and pregnant Darta embark on a transformative journey home, facing unresolved emotions and fractured relationships.

Summer Blues

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Can’t Help Myself poster
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Estere spends her days by the sea selling ice cream. Trying to find peace, she listens to meditation podcasts and self-help books. Meanwhile, strangers caressed by the summer sun look for the same in tarot cards, alcohol and the Bible. Estere starts to imitate overheard conversations: stuck in positive self-verbalization, she repeats it until she believes it.

Can’t Help Myself

2022

Can’t Help Myself poster
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Estere spends her days by the sea selling ice cream. Trying to find peace, she listens to meditation podcasts and self-help books. Meanwhile, strangers caressed by the summer sun look for the same in tarot cards, alcohol and the Bible. Estere starts to imitate overheard conversations: stuck in positive self-verbalization, she repeats it until she believes it.

Can’t Help Myself

2022

Still Life poster
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Elīna returns to the summer house of her childhood to show it to buyers. The visceral presence of her dead grandmother forces her to reflect on the legacy of failing familial relations – and how she and her mother are approaching a similar fate.

Still Life

2021

Still Life poster
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Elīna returns to the summer house of her childhood to show it to buyers. The visceral presence of her dead grandmother forces her to reflect on the legacy of failing familial relations – and how she and her mother are approaching a similar fate.

Still Life

2021

Still Life poster
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Elīna returns to the summer house of her childhood to show it to buyers. The visceral presence of her dead grandmother forces her to reflect on the legacy of failing familial relations – and how she and her mother are approaching a similar fate.

Still Life

2021