Lithuanian Films Will Be Shown during the Short Film Corner of the International Cannes Film Festival

Short Lithuanian films will participate in the Short Film Corner during the 59^th International Cannes Film Festival where professionals of short film industry meet, round tables concerning films of this genre and their production are held. The following films have been included in the programme: Vocations directed by Inesa Kurklietytė, The Boy and the Sea directed by Tomas Donela and Our Days Our Nights directed by a TV journalist, postgraduate student of film management at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Jovita Valeikaitė. Films in this programme will be screened on May 17 – 27.

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The Boy and the Sea is a film-poetic parabola about the loss and a child’s initiation into the adult world. The heroes of the film are a six-year-old boy and his blind grandfather. The bored boy makes his blind grandfather to play hide-and-seek. This is quite an unequal hide-and-seek, even slightly cruel, but the boy enjoys winning against his grandfather. And now is the turn for the blind man to hide. The boy is rejoicing his victory in advance; however, when the child opens his eyes and goes to seek his grandfather, the world seems to have changed and the grandfather is nowhere to be found. The boy’s gaze is wandering around the empty world of sand and water for quite a while. The child realises that there is no grandfather anymore and there will never be.

Vocations is a film about the first sin that has happened in a child’s head. About his first attempt to reach a woman. About acute sensations when fantasy has not yet grown out of the age of lullabies and fairy-tales. About the mystical Woman’s body in the child’s fantasy. The script was inspired by  Baudelaire‘s work.

Our Days Our Nights is a documentary story about the Summer Media Studio in Juodkrantė, .

Earlier the Pravda One Minute festival announced that the film Metropolis or 60 s of neither Desire nor Beauty (directed by Tomas Valys) selected by OmniSurfport customers was awarded an invitation to participate in Short Film Corner of the Cannes Festival.