In October 2017 «Manhattan short» short film festival will be held in Riga for the sixth time. MANHATTAN SHORT is the only film festival of its kind: during the event every spectator has the opportunity to vote for the favorite film and the best actor. This year the program of the festival will be special for any Latvian spectator: Latvian Pavel Gumeninikov and his short film «Just Go» will represent Latvia in the 20 th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.

There were 1615 shorts from 75 countries in the competitive selection and only 10 of them were selected for the final program of Mahnattan Short. During the festival films from nine different countries will be shown and «Just, Go!» by the Latvian director Pavel Gumennikov among them. The Final 10 selections are screened simultaneously across the world during a one-week period, with the Best Film and Best Actor awards determined by the audience in each cinema.

«Mahnattan Short» takes place in the world for 20 years, 10 films from the festival program were nominated for an Oscar. This year’s Final 10 represent an extraordinary range of genres with comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi, animation, and martial arts short films all featured in the MANHATTAN SHORT program:

Do No Harm (New Zealand), Behind (Spain), Fickle Bickle (USA), Hope Dies Last (United Kingdom), The Perfect Day (Spain), Just Go! (Latvia), Mare Nostrum (Syria), Viola, Franca (Italy), In a Nutshell (Netherlands), 8 Minutes (Georgia).

Program length: 2 hours

Language: films are in original languages with Latvian and Russian subtitles.