SPECIAL PROGRAMME “COME CLOSER”
TBA
COMMUNITY GARDENS / KOLEKTYVINIAI SODAI
Drama/Comedy, D: Vytautas Katkus, 15′, LT, 2019
Director/Screenwriter/DOP: Vytautas Katkus
Editor: Laurynas Bareiša
Sound Designer: Julius Grigelionis
Production Design: Justė Vazgytė
Production: Viktoria Films
Producer: Viktorija Seniut
Contact: Lights On, https://www.lightsonfilm.com/
Cast: Vygantas Bachmackij, Arvydas Dapšys, Aistė Zabotkaitė, Jelena Juscenko
AWARDS
Concorto FF 2019 – Best Short Film
Film Fest Gent 2019 – Best International Short Film
Friss Hús Budapest ISFF 2020 – Best International Short Film Award
New Holland Island Debut IFF 2020 – Best Short Award
Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival 2020 – Grand Award
SYNOPSIS
Patriarchal masculinity seems to draw its last breath in the sun. A story about the cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.
LIMOUSINE / LIMUZINAS
Documentary, D: Saulė Bliuvaitė, 15′, LT, 2021
Director / Screenwriter: Saulė Bliuvaitė
DOP: Vytautas Plukas
Editor: Saulė Bliuvaitė, Ignė Narbutaitė
Music Composer: Ernestas Kaušylas
Sound Designer: Iveta Macevičiūtė
Producer: Kristina Ramanauskaitė, Giedrė Burokaitė
Production: Magic Films
Contact: Giedrė Burokaitė
While driving around in limousines, groups of people from different generations and backgrounds struggle to find the best way to have the fun they desire.
DUMMY/ATKŪRIMAS
Drama/Crime, D: Laurynas Bareiša, 2020, 13′, LT
Director/Screenwriter/DOP/Editing: Laurynas Bareiša
Sound Designer: Julius Grigelionis
Production: Afterschool
Producer: Klementina Remeikaitė
Contact: Varicoloured
Cast: Dmitrijus Denisiukas, Kęstutis Stasys Jakštas, Giedrius Kiela, Artūras Lepiochinas, Karolis Maiskis, Paulius Markevičius, Indrė Patkauskaitė
SYNOPSIS
A crime scene inspection in the woods: the perpetrator re-enacts the brutal crime in minute detail using a faceless doll. Surprisingly, he is not the one being judged.
IN PERPETUUM / IN PERPETUUM
Puppet Animation, D: Birutė Sodeikaitė, 2024, 11, LT / CA
Director / Producer / Editor: Birutė Sodeikaitė
DOP: Evan DeRushie
Editor: Kaisa Pitsi
Animation: Akash Jones, Corinne Roy, Kyla Atlas
Sound / Music: Sacha Ratchliffe
Puppets: Birutė Sodeikaitė, Sylwia Nowak, Molly Grundy, Benjamin Fieschi-Rose
Producer: Stop Motion Department
Contact: Birutė Sodeikaitė
Actress: Vaiva Kvedaravičiūtė, Deantha Edmunds-Ramsay (Voice Over)
SYNOPSIS
A young woman is going through metamorphosis of becoming a mother.
TECHNO, MAMA/ TECHNO, MAMA
Drama / Queer, D: Saulius Baradinskas, 2021, 18′, LT
Director / Writer: Saulius Baradinskas
DOP: Vytautas Katkus
Editor: Karolis Labutis
Music Composer: Rob Meyer
Sound Designer: Andrius Krisčiūnas
Production: Viktoria Films
Producer: Viktorija Seniut
Contact: Lights On
Cast: Motiejus Aškelovičius, Neringa Varnelytė, Kasparas Varanavičius, Urtė Strolaitė, Algirdas Galkus
AWARDS:
FilmFestival Cottbus 2021– Best Short Film
Scanorama IFF 2021 – Best Short Film
International Music Film Festival 2022 – Best Short Film
Mieres International Short Film Festival 2022 – Best Actor
Drama International Short Film Festival 2022 – Grand Prix, Human Values
Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival 2022 – Best International Short Film
Visioni Corte Film Festival 2022 – Best Film
Litauisches Kino Goes Berlin Festival 2022 – Audience Award
SYNOPSIS
Nikita loves listening to techno and dreams of going to “Berghain”. His mother Irena knows nothing about her son’s desires – and shortly, their mutual expectations will collide.