Proxima Competition / Renovacija / Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium 2025
29-year-old Ilona and her boyfriend have just moved into a new apartment in a block of flats. When the building’s renovation begins soon afterwards and she befriends Oleg, one of the Ukrainian construction workers, her idyllic notions of a fulfilling life as she approaches thirty start to crumble, like the old plaster on the walls. Gabrielė Urbonaitė’s feature debut is a masterful, contemporary portrayal of the lives of millennials, who on the one hand are exposed to modernity, endless possibilities and Western Europe's constant pressure to perform, while on the other they still carry the traumas of previous generations brought up in the Soviet Union, whose shadows are still alive in the face of current political events.
Natalia Kozáková
90 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Gabrielė Urbonaitė
/ Screenplay Gabrielė Urbonaitė
/ Dir. of Photography Vytautas Katkus
/ Music Edvards Broders
/ Sound Iveta Macevičit
/ Editor Armands Začs
/ Art Director Sigita Jonaitytė
/ Producer Uljana Kim
/ Production Studio Uljana Kim
/ Coproduction Mima Films, Harald House
/ Cast Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė, Šarūnas Zenkevičius, Roman Lutskyi
/ Contact Studio Uljana Kim
Gabrielė Urbonaitė (1993, Vilnius, Lithuania). Filmography: Paskutinis skambutis (2019, short), Solastalgia (2021, short doc.), Renovation (Renovacija, 2025).
Studio Uljana Kim
Antakalnio 94-25, LT10202, Vilnius
Lithuania
Phone: +370 699 265 52
E-mail: [email protected]
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