International Competition · 46th Edition
Renovation
RENOVACIJA
Director
Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Country
Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium
Runtime
1 h 30 min
Language
Lithuanian, English, Norwegian, Ukrainian
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Present-day Vilnius, Lithuania. Ilona, a perfectionist 29-year-old, feels the pressure to be settled and successful before turning 30. At this turning point in her life, she begins to question how she truly wants to live. She moves into a seemingly perfect apartment with her boyfriend, Matas, as things between them grow serious. But when the building’s renovation begins, it’s not just cracks that start to show.
Cast
Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė Šarūnas Zenkevičius Roman Lutskyi Laimutė Štrimaitytė Maryna Zdarankova
Screenplay
Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Producers
Uljana Kim, Alise Rogule, Dominiks Jarmakovičs, Kristian Van Der Heyden
About the Director
Gabrielė Urbonaitė was born in 1993 in Lithuania. She directed several short films, including The Swimmer, which won the “Silver Crane,” the National Lithuanian Film Award. She participated in Berlinale Talents, Talent Camp Odense, and Reykjavik Talent Lab, and was named Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker in 2020. She holds a BFA in Film from Emerson College and an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from Columbia University.
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