International Courant
Lithuania has chosen Laurynas Bareisa’s sophomore characteristic Drowning Dry as its entry in one of the best worldwide characteristic race for the 2025 Oscars.
The film about two sisters who expertise a life-altering household tragedy not too long ago gained one of the best directing honor on the 77th version of the Locarno Movie Pageant, in addition to one in every of its two finest efficiency awards for its ensemble solid, consisting of Gelmine Glemzaite, Agne Kaktaite, Giedrius Kiela and Paulius Markevicius. THR’s assessment known as the film “delicate and haunting.”
Bareiša is not any stranger to pageant awards and the Oscar race. The filmmaker’s crime drama and debut characteristic Pilgrims gained the Horizons part award for finest movie on the Venice Movie Pageant 2021 and have become Lithuania’s entry for one of the best worldwide characteristic movie race.
His second characteristic’s unique Lithuanian title is Seses, which means “sisters.” The English title refers to a nonmedical time period used to seek advice from acute lung harm ensuing from underwater accidents. “I used the irregular repetition of the dry drowning situation as a structural factor of the story to focus on the assorted methods of coping with trauma,” Bareisa not too long ago advised THR.
He felt that Drowning Dry was “an excellent and distinctive title that can be an excellent illustration of what the movie is about,” he additionally shared. “It really works actually and in addition (as a reference to the) themes of the movie.”
Neringa Kazukauskaite, the chairwoman of the Lithuanian fee deciding on the nation’s worldwide Oscar submissions, praised Drowning Dry for “the unique considering of the director, a novel method of storytelling and “a wonderful performing ensemble,” in accordance with a Fb submit by the Lithuanian Movie Middle. She concluded: “Within the worldwide context, this movie additional consolidates the notion that Lithuania produces unique cinema of excessive creative high quality, which could be fascinating and appreciated everywhere in the world.”
Lithuania has often submitted movies within the worldwide Oscar class however has by no means been nominated.
