What are You Hungry For?

After the success of his debut feature film Nova Lituania (2019), the director Karolis Kaupinis is working on his second film Hunger Strike Breakfast (Badautojų namelis) that’s set to be released in 2024.

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The film tells the story of the employees of Lithuanian Television during a Soviet takeover in 1991. Having lost their jobs due to the event, its employees declare a hunger strike in protest. Initial enthusiasm is slowly replaced by emotional hunger which is way harder to bear than the physical one.

Hunger Strike Breakfast is writ-

For more information: with an MA in Comparative Politics. Until 2018 Kaupinis had been working as a presenter and editor of a weekly TV programme dedicated to current political affairs at a national broadcaster.

Soon afterwards Karolis started writing and directing short films. His first short film The Noisemaker was selected to Pardi di domani Competition in the Locarno Film Festival and has been screened at more than 50 international film festivals ever since, also winning two Lithuanian Film Academy Awards – Silver Crane for The Best Short Film and The Best Actor in 2015. Kaupinis’ second short Watchkeeping was selected by more than 20 international film festivals in 2017.

Two years later Kaupinis premiered his debut feature film Nova Lituania at Karlovy Vary IFF, the film is still running at festivals, having four international awards for the Best Director and Best Picture categories. Nova Lituania was the leading film at theLithuanian National Awards 2020 receiving six main awards. This film was nominated to be representative of Lithuania for the Accademy Awards 2021. BF