Synopsis

While the bear parents are away looking for berries and honey, the baby bears stay at home with the sheep. The bear cubs have a good time playing merrily with a ball of yarn, but soon enough the cubs find themselves all tangled up and everything is turned upside down! Luckily the sheep help them put everything in order again. The film is based on the traditional Latvian lullaby “Hush Hush Little Bear” (‘Aijā, žūžū, lāča bērni’).

Māra Liniņa

Māra Liniņa (Riga, 1971) studied Film Direction and Stage Speech at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Since 1998 Māra teaches elocution and acting at various higher educational establishments and works as a casting director for Latvian and international film projects. She also has staged productions at the Latvian Puppet Theatre and independent Theatre Company Skatuve. Māra Liniņa has begun her career in animation in the 90s working as executive artist at Dauka Animation studio. However, soon she started to direct her own animation short films. Māra has said that working on her own animation films means for her to be in dialogue with the world, to tell adventures, and experiences in the language of cinema.