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 the greatest directing honor on the 77th version of the Locarno Movie Festival, in addition to one in all its two greatest efficiency awards for its ensemble forged, consisting of Gelmine Glemzaite, Agne Kaktaite, Giedrius Kiela and Paulius Markevicius. THR‘s assessment referred to as the film “delicate and haunting.”
Bareiša isn’t any stranger to competition awards and the Oscar race. The filmmaker’s crime drama and debut characteristic Pilgrims gained the Horizons part award for greatest movie on the Venice Movie Competition 2021 and have become Lithuania’s entry for the greatest worldwide characteristic movie race.
His second characteristic’s unique Lithuanian title is Seses, that means “sisters.” The English title refers to a nonmedical time period used to check with acute lung damage ensuing from underwater accidents. “I used the irregular repetition of the dry drowning situation as a structural ingredient of the story to spotlight the assorted methods of coping with trauma,” Bareisa not too long ago informed THR.
He felt that Drowning Dry was “ and distinctive title that can be 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, lauded Drowning Dry for “the unique pondering of the director, a singular approach of storytelling and “a wonderful appearing ensemble,” based on a Fb publish 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 may be fascinating and appreciated everywhere in the world.”
Lithuania has recurrently submitted movies within the worldwide Oscar class however has by no means been nominated.