Logo_hovers_2024
Title
World Festival of Animated Film /
5 to 10 June 2023
World Festival of Animated Film / 5 to 10 June 2023
hr | en

My Love Affair With Marriage / My Love Affair With Marriage

GRAND COMPETITION - FEATURE FILM

Mlawm_4
Mlawm_3
Mlawm_2
Mlawm_1
Mlawm_6
Mlawm_5

My Love Affair With Marriage / My Love Affair With Marriage


Signe Baumane

Latvia, United States, Luxembourg / 2023 / 108' 0''



Screenings


Buy_ticket Buy tickets
Thursday, 08. 06.,
Tuškanac Cinema, 19:30 h
Buy_ticket Buy tickets
Friday, 09. 06.,
Tuškanac Cinema, 21:30 h


Synopsis


Born on the Russian island of Sakhalin and raised in Latvia, young Zelma grows up in constant conflict with the desperate expectations forced upon her as a young woman. Haunted by a trio of singing sirens, she embarks on a desperate search for love and happiness, but finds only opposition and struggle at every turn. Signe Baumane’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale is a visually ravishing animated odyssey peppered with dark humour and sly observations about the immigrant experience and humanity’s eternal battle of the sexes.

Signe Baumane


Signe Baumane, an independent animator known for her controversial films on the subjects of sex, pregnancy, dentists and madness, was born in Latvia in 1964. Signe studied Philosophy at the Moscow State University. The one thing she learned in her five years of Philosophy study was that knowledge is relative: what you know to be the truth today can become a lie tomorrow. In 1991 Signe was given an opportunity to direct her first animated short, The Witch and the Cow. When the film was finished Signe started to work as a freelance designer and illustrator with publishing houses in Moscow and Riga. Ever since she wrote, directed, designed and animated 16 shorts and two animated feature films.

 

Director

Signe Baumane


Production

Studio Locomotive; The Marriage Project LLC; Antevita Films


Screenplay

Signe Baumane


Sound

Pierre Vedovato


Music

Kristian Sensini


Editing

Signe Baumane, Sturgis Warner


categories

GRAND COMPETITION - FEATURE FILM