Can't Help Myself (Can't Help Myself), dir. Anna Ansone, 19’, Latvia, 2022
As Estere is selling ice cream on the Baltic Sea coast, she listens to guided online meditation sessions and to positive affirmations. Alongside her self-help odyssey, other beach-goers try to cope with the help of Tarot cards, alcohol or the Holy Bible. Longing for contact but stuck in self-doubt, Estere starts to imitate overheard conversations: stuck in positive self-verbalisation, she repeats it until she believes it.
Producer Alise Rogule
Production Company
Mima Films