Crystal Globe Competition / Svečias / Lithuania, Norway, Sweden 2025
It’s the end of summer. Danielius, a new father in his mid-thirties, leaves his family in Norway and travels to his native Lithuania to sell his parents’ flat. He tries to reconnect with old friends, but the strong bond he once had with them is now broken. Instead of rushing back to his young family to escape the deafening loneliness, he decides to stay, allowing himself to be guided by his solitude. In his feature debut, director and cameraman Vytautas Katkus indirectly builds on his own short filmmaking endeavours, in which he works deftly with an authentic space familiar both to himself and his protagonists, while also adopting a loose conception of time. Here, time seems to have stopped completely in a world which lights up the fragility of the human soul and images of a home that is no longer ours.
Natalia Kozáková
115 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Vytautas Katkus
/ Screenplay Vytautas Katkus, Marija Kavtaradze
/ Dir. of Photography Vytautas Katkus
/ Sound Julius Grigelionis
/ Editor Laurynas Bareiša
/ Art Director Lisanne Fransen, Ieva Rojūtė
/ Producer Marija Razgutė, Brigita Beniušytė
/ Production M-Films
/ Coproduction Stær Films, Garagefilm International
/ Cast Darius Šilėnas, Vismantė Ruzgaitė, Arvydas Dapšys
/ Sales Totem Films
/ Contact Kai Hermann
Vytautas Katkus (Lithuania). Filmography: Community Gardens (Kolektyviniai sodai, 2019, short), Places (Miegamasis rajonas, 2020, short), Cherries (Uogos, 2022, short), The Visitor (Svečias, 2025).
Totem Films
5 rue de Charonne, 750 11, Paris
France
Phone: +33 685 769 063
E-mail: [email protected]
Kai Hermann
Phone: +49 152 534 509 55
E-mail: [email protected]
Vytautas Katkus
Film Director
Marija Razgutė
Producer
Brigita Beniušytė
Producer
Morta Verbickaitė
Other
Anna-Maria Kantarius
Producer
Darius Šilėnas
Actor
Vismantė Ruzgaitė
Actress
Hanne Mathisen Haga
Actress
Julius Grigelionis
Sound Designer
Morta Jonynaitė
Costume Designer
Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė
Casting Director
Lukas Lukoševičius
Assistant Director
Gabrielė Misevičiūtė
Film Crew
Vytenis Liskauskas
Film Crew
Kai Hermann
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