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The film is based on true events involving five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and suicide. It raises questions of how much family genetics determine who we are and if it is possible to outsmart one's own DNA.
In the new animated gem Rocks in My Pockets, Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane tells five fantastical tales based on the courageous women in her family and their battles with madness.
Rocks in My Pockets, A Crazy Quest For Sanity by Signe Baumane.
Aug 22, 2014 · Rocks in My Pockets: Directed by Signe Baumane. With Signe Baumane. Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.
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- Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Signe Baumane
- 2014-08-22
Rocks in My Pockets (Latvian: Akmeņi manās kabatās) is a 2014 Latvian-American animated film written, produced, directed and animated by Signe Baumane. It was originally created in English and a Latvian version was thereafter translated and produced.
Rocks in My Pockets, by Signe Baumane. Latvia, the late 1920’s. Anna, a young woman, pretty and educated, falls in love with an adventurous entrepreneur, 30 years her senior. But with marriage comes great jealousy, and the entrepreneur hides Anna away in the forest, far from other men, where she bears him eight children.
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Sep 3, 2014 · Boasting a narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humor and tales-within-tales, the imaginative animated memoir Rocks in My Pockets merges a mini-history of 20th-century Latvia with that of helmer Signe Baumane and her forebears.
