Female Shorts
13. Litauisches Kino goes Berlin | Festival
We selected 5 new shorts from five FEMALE FILMMAKERS this year. Instead of putting them in competition, we decided to put them all in the same spotlight.
The new films by Jorūnė Greičiūtė, Jorė Janavičiūtė, Eglė Razumaitė, Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė (in duo with Antanas Skučas) and Silvija Kuodytė are equally worth it.
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© lt goes berlin
© lt goes berlin
© lt goes berlin
© lt goes berlin
© lt goes berlin
THE TRIP / IŠVYKA
Relationship Drama, D: Jorūnė Greičiūtė, 2022, 20′, LT
Director / Writer: Jorūnė Greičiūtė
DOP: Zbigniev Bartoševič
Editor: Jorūnė Greičiūtė, Zbigniev Bartoševič
Music Composer: Martynas Valius
Sound Designer: Julius Grigelionis
Production Designer: Justė Vazgytė
Producer: Rūta Jekentaitė
Production / Contact: Baltic Productions
Cast: Milda Noreikaitė, Valentin Novopolskij
SYNOPSIS
Empty deserted places in a foreign land. Couple travels South to find their lost connection at the mysterious relationship resort. While on the trip there, their car disappears.
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PURGA / PURGA
Documentary / Animation, D: Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas, 2023, 13′, LT
Director: Antanas Skučas, Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė
Writer: Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas
Editor: Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė
Music Composer / Sound Designer: Marius Salynas
Animation: Svetlana Bezuglova, Milda Kargaudaitė, Pijus Balkaitis, Antanas Skučas, Aurelis Čiupas
Production: Tylus kinas
Producer: Giedrė Burokaitė, Lauras Lučiūnas
Contact: Akis bado
SYNOPSIS
Winter, 1942. Beyond the Arctic Circle, on the uninhabited island of Trofimovsk in the Laptev Sea, exiled people struggle to survive. This is the place chosen by Soviet authorities to deport vast numbers of inhabitants from the occupied Baltic countries, Finland, Ukraine and elsewhere.
All experiences depicted are based on the memories of those who survived.
AWARDS
Lithuanian National Silver Crane 2023: Best Animation
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HOW TO BE A HUMAN BEING / KAIP BŪTI ŽMOGUMI
Drama, D: Jorė Janavičiūtė, 2023, 15′, LT
Director / Writer: Jorė Janavičiūtė
DOP: Vytautas Katkus
Editor: Silvija Vilkaitė-Ramanauskė
Sound Designer: Dominyka Adomaitytė
Production: Kino metropolis, Dansu films
Producers: Greta Akcijonaitė, Gabija Siurbytė
Contact: Greta Akcijonaitė
Cast: Gelminė Glemžaitė, Giedrius Kiela
SYNOPSIS
During a conference in a hotel, a woman in her mid-thirties meets a man that she used to date in her teenage years. She accuses him of ‘date-rape’ back then. When they start to talk, it turns out they remember the story differently.
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THE FALL / KRYTIS
Drama / Hybrid / Coming-of-Age, D: Eglė Razumaitė, 2023, 23′, LT
Director / Writer / Editor: Eglė Razumaitė
DOP: Nojus Drąsutis
Music Composer: Arnold Schoenberg
Sound Designer: Artūras Jelinas
Producer: Natalija Butylkina
Contact: Eglė Razumaitė
Cast: Vaidotas Martinaitis, Rėjus Luneckas, Benas Abarius, Laimutė Štrimaitytė, Chen Wong
SYNOPSIS
The site manager of the Palace of Culture, Sports and Entertainment is thwarted by a call from his wife. Meanwhile, in the palace lobby children gather for a martial arts training session from which two boys escape.
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I WILL KILL YOU (I LOVE YOU) / JA TIBIA UBJU
Drama /, D: Silvija Kuodytė, 2022, 21′, LT
Director / Writer / Editor: Silvija Kuodytė
DOP: Jaunius Sarapinas
Music Composer: Laurynas Kamarauskas
Sound Designer: Laurynas Kamarauskas
Producer: Marija Kazlauskaitė, Rūta Pašukonytė, Augustė Puteikytė
Contact: Silvija Kuodytė
Cast: Angelina Daukaitė, Martynas Berulis, Dovilė Šilkaitytė, Irena Sikorskytė, Urtė Povilauskaitė
SYNOPSIS
Why overcome your fears when you can just run away from them? – that’s how Saulė feels delaying time so that she doesn’t have to return home…
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Das Festival wurde 2011 aus der Idee geboren, die ganze Bandbreite des litauischen Kinos nach Berlin zu holen. Das einzige litauische Filmfestival außerhalb seines Heimatlandes hat sich seitdem zu einer Plattform entwickelt, die Filmenthusiasten und Kulturbegeisterten Filmkunst und Kultur aus Litauen ganzjährig näherbringen möchte. Darüber hinaus zelebriert das Festival mit der Präsentation von Filmen aus Estland und Lettland die enge Verbindung der baltischen Länder. Litauisches Kino Goes Berlin wird vom Litauischen Filmzentrum und Litauischen Kulturrat gefördert sowie mit der Unterstützung und teilweisen Finanzierung durch das Programm Global Lithuania umgesetzt.