Scanorama

November 5 - 22

2026

Open My Festival
Baltic Short Film Competition programme „New Baltic Cinema“

Hedgehogs and the City

10 min. | Animation | N/A

One spring morning animals wake up from winter sleep and discover that forest has been turned into a city. A hedgehog has a brilliant idea how they could survive in the big city. By helping people they could earn money! But what does it take? Hedgehogs decide to get back forest and their real home...

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Ēvalds Lācis

Ēvalds Lācis

Ēvaldsas Lācis was born in Riga in 1974. In 1996 he graduated from Latvian Academy of Culture as Cameraman. Since 1998 Ē. Lācis works at Film Studio “AB” as director of photography. Since 2005 he has been writing scripts for animation films. In 2008 he directed his first film The New Species. His second film Ice Master was made in the same year.
Languages
Latvian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Ezi un lielpilseta
Produced
2013: Latvia

Film information

Director
Ēvalds Lācis
Producers
Māris Putniņš
Screenplay
Ēvalds Lācis
Music
Karlis Auzans
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