Viktorija Zobielaitė

A corrupt politician tries to get some decency points by marrying his beloved daughter to a simple farm guy.

A short poetic film based on the text ‘Psalmė’ by the artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. It explores the life of a teenager - Laima, and her search for her calling and purpose. Due to deeply rooted traditions, the girl is forced to marry a stranger, which means she must say goodbye to her home and family. No one takes Laima’s wishes or dreams seriously, as marriage is her duty. However, Laima does not abandon her deepest feelings and seizing an opportunity runs away from the wedding. Her only remaining support is God.

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

Middle-aged Arūnas is looking for a way to escape the pain of his wife's betrayal, while 17-year-old Ilona is looking for a substitute for the father she never had. Two strangers meet in the night to lean on each other's pain.

Made in collaboration with Marija Olšauskaitė and Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Songs from the compost is a hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life: interdependence, surrender, death, and decay. [Overview Courtesy of Canal Projects]