MARKET SCREENING TheTrip

Soviet Lithuania, 1975. Against the backdrop of an industrial fishing boat, fishermen kiss their wives goodbye. They are going off to the sea to catch fish in the far Atlantic coasts of Africa. The boat is going to be their home for the upcoming five months. Eventhough the ship sails thousands miles away from the Iron Curtain, its shadow follows the men.

DIRECTOR RIMANTAS OICENKA

(b. 1987) has been working at the Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris“ as film distribution manager for the past ten years. The Trip is his second short film.

Film Info

Original title: Reisas

Genre: documentary

Theme: love, time, travel

Language: Lithuanian

Director: Rimantas Oičenka

Screenwriter: Rimantas Oičenka

Cinematographer: Linas Žiūra

Editor: Rimantas Oičenka

Composer: Vytautas Leistrumas

Sound: Sigitas Motoras

Producer: Jurga Kaye

Produced by: Studija Kinema

Festivals and awards: Warsaw IFF 2022

(Poland) – Jury Special Mention, Dingle Distillery IFF 2022 (Ireland) – Best International Short Film.

25 min  DCP  1.85  5.1

Contact

Studija Kinema

Rimantas Oičenka +370 6268 2513 oosikas@gmail.com kinema.lt

The Poet

Atalented poet who was expelled from the Lithuanian Soviet Writers’ Union for his anti-Soviet literature is recruited by the NKVD to establish contact with the partisans. In return he was promised a return to the elite of Soviet writers.

DIRECTOR GIEDRIUS TAMOŠEVICIUS holds a bachelor and masters degrees in Film Directing at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. As a director he created several short films during his years of study. After his studies, he worked for several years as an assistant to director Sergei Loznitsa on the films A Gentle Creature (2017), Donbass (2018) and Mr. Landsbergis (2021). He has worked on casting and directing non-professional actors.

DIRECTOR VYTAUTAS V. LANDSBERGIS studied film directing in Georgia, at the Rustavelis Institutetre in Tbilisi and with Jonas Mekas in New York, at the Anthology Film Archive. Since 1992 he has made two feature-length films and over twenty documentaries. Vytautas is interested in bright, contemporary and transformative personalities of Lithuanian culture and historical figures. In his spare time, he is involved in engaging young people in filmmaking.

Film Info

Original title: Poetas

Genre: drama

Language: Lithuanian

Directors: Giedrius Tamoševičius, Vytautas V. Landsbergis

Screenwriters: Giedrius Tamoševičius, Vytautas V. Landsbergis

Cinematographer: Vytautas Plukas

Production Designer: Sigita Šimkūnaitė

Editor: Darius Šilėnas

Sound: Saulius Urbanavičius

Main cast: Donatas Želvys, Dainius Gavenonis, Indrė Patkauskaitė

Producers: Vytautas V. Landsbergis, Uljana Kim

Produced by: A Propos Studija, Studio Uljana Kim

International Premiere: Tallinn Black Nights

FF –Best Baltic Film, November 2022

113 min  DCP  2.39:1  5.1

Contact

A Propos Studija

Osvaldas Bručas

+370 6227 7807 osvaldas.brucas@gmail.com