Director Mara Linina’s animated short film “Chuchi Chuchi” selected for the competition in Berlin / Article

The NKC pointed out that, like the well-known lullaby “Aija, žūžū, bear’s children”, the five-minute film “Čuči čuči” tells the story of a bear family where the big bears go during the day – to take care of berries and honey, but the bears stay home together. with sleeping sheep and working in sorrow. It is an imaginative message about a carefree, truly emotionally saturated childhood time next to the adult world – care, love, mutual understanding, family, such very important universal values.

The director of the film Māra Liniņa said about her new film: “Our folk songs have a strong cultural and historical heritage that gives special energy, in them we hear the sound of our Latvian language, the message encoded in the songs has allowed them to survive and sound from generation to generation for centuries.”

The film’s creative team consists of director Māra Liniņa, artist Ūna Laukmane, creative producer Edmunds Jansons, experienced animators Mārtiņš Dūmiņš and Kristīne Zvirbule, while the animated characters in wool have been carefully created by animator Līva Piterāne. The lullaby “Children in Aija, žūžū, a bear” was sung by opera singer Kristīne Zadovska and actor Andris Keišs, the composer of the film is Jēkabs Nīmanis, and the sound director is Ģirts Bišs. Producers of the film – Sabine Anderson and Ieva Vaickovska.

The film was supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation. Movie nominated For the National Film Award “Kristaps the Great” in two categories – Best Animated Film and Best Animated Film Artist.

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