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I Was Max

Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2022 / Aš buvau Maksas / Lithuania 2021

One evening that means a lot for Max. It’s the first time he dares to go on a date arranged on the internet. The moment he gets into Tadas’s car, he embarks on a journey into the unknown. A sensitive look at the process of self-acceptance, at the moment when we have to stop hiding and to accept responsibility for who we truly are – and not to be ashamed of it.

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Synopsis

One evening that means a lot for Max. It’s the first time he dares to go on a date arranged on the internet. The moment he gets into Tadas’s car, he embarks on a journey into the unknown. Max is nervous, and you can tell that he feels uncomfortable in this situation. The visibly more experienced and uninhibited Tadas tries to take the initiative to dispel Max’s uncertainty, but the more he tries, the more Max shuts down. Something is clearly not alright… I Was Max is a sensitive exploration of the process of self-acceptance, of the moment when we have to stop hiding and to accept responsibility for who we truly are – and not to be ashamed of it. It is the moment when we fully become one with our own identity.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

21 min / Color, DCP

Director Lukas Kacinauskas / Screenplay Lukas Kacinauskas / Dir. of Photography Meida Lileikytė / Sound Mindaugas Juška / Editor Lukas Kacinauskas / Art Director Deimantė Krutulytė / Producer Laura Vrubliauskaitė / Production Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater / Coproduction M-Films / Cast Šarūnas Zenkevičius, Matas Dirginčius / Contact Lithuanian Film Centre

About the director

Lukas Kacinauskas

Lukas Kacinauskas (1992, Lithuania). Filmography: I Was Max (Aš buvau Maksas, 2021, short).

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Lithuanian Film Centre
Zigmanto Sierakausko st. 15, 03105, Vilnius
Lithuania
Phone: +370 5 213 0547
E-mail: [email protected]

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