Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema / Pravažiavus Napaleono kepurę / Lithuania 2025
On a misty early-spring morning, Martynas picks up his father from a psychiatric hospital. As they travel to visit his grandparents in a small town in Lithuania, they pass a familiar strangely-shaped hill. It feels like eternity since they all played there together. The poetically titled Past the Hill of Napoleon’s Hat is an oppressive portrait of one fleeting day in the life of an estranged family forced to confront something they have ignored for many years. The coming of spring and the long-anticipated reunion, however, awaken within the father the hope that, this time around, something might change in their fragile relationship.
Jan Kinzl
16 min / Color, DCP
Director Arnas Balčiūnas
/ Screenplay Arnas Balčiūnas
/ Dir. of Photography Milda Juodvalkytė
/ Sound Fausta Pilkaitė
/ Editor Antanas Skridaila
/ Art Director Diana Tumėnaitė
/ Producer Augustė Puteikytė
/ Production Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
/ Cast Martynas Mockevičius, Darius Gumauskas, Neringa Bulotaitė, Rimantas Bagdzevičius
/ Contact Lithuanian Film Centre
Arnas Balčiūnas. Filmography: Through Gloom (Blausos, 2022, short), Hubble’s Law (Hablo Dėsnis, 2023, short), Past the Hill of Napoleon’s Hat (Pravažiavus Napoleono Kepurę, 2025, short), Class Photo (Klasės Nuotrauka, 2026, short).
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Lithuania
Phone: +370 521 305 47
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