Already on June 9 on the ceremony to be held, as many as 8 documentaries or movies based mostly on true tales are competing for the “Silver Crane” statuette in numerous classes.
The movie nominated for the perfect documentary of the yr “Row throughout the Atlantic“. The 8,500 km journey throughout the ocean by the rowing boat “Lituanica” of the director and primary character of the movie, the traveler Aurim Valujavičius, which was carefully and excitedly watched by the entire of Lithuania, obtained no much less consideration and was was a film.
“The group and I wished to incorporate as a lot as doable within the movie: each the informative preparation levels and the journey itself. From the very starting of planning the journey in 2020, I knew that I might additionally make a movie. Subsequently, I had a script and scenes in thoughts that had been completely essential to seize. We wished to indicate the viewer what the price of making ready for such a journey is, so displaying the entire course of was particularly essential to me. I used to be happy that the movie managed to make it dynamic sufficient, as a result of the journey itself and rowing throughout the ocean can sound very monotonous. Boredom was what I feared probably the most. Nevertheless, if I needed to make such a movie a second time, I most likely would not change a lot,” says A. Valujavičius.
The movie is competing for the perfect documentary movie and two different classes „Muse“ (dir. Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė, prod. Živilė Gallego), telling the story of the well-known Lithuanian pianist Mūza Rubackytė.
“I actually just like the style of documentary movie portrait, as a result of in it you possibly can hear the story of an individual, reveal his philosophy of life. For me, Mūza revealed herself as a genius artist, however on the similar time I spotted that genius shouldn’t be a given. Her genius is the results of the truth that she nurtured the reward she obtained from God, at first with the assistance of her household, and in a while her personal, she pursued her objective in horrible situations and created a really particular world round her. Each particular person, kind of, can create a stupendous life for themselves if they need it, in the event that they put effort into it,” says director A. Marcinkevičiūtė.
The movie, nominated in two classes, takes you to a very totally different, however no much less near Lithuanian sphere – the world of sports activities „ticket” (dir. Vytautas Dambrauskas, prod. Edmundas Jakilaitis). Basketball gamers on the courtroom, entrepreneurs of their spare time and bearers of the spirit of freedom in Lithuania – this was the Kaunas “Žalgiris” group of 1979-1989. Basketball legends A. Sabonis, R. Kurtinaitis, V. Chomičius, G. Krapikas, S. Jovaiša, V. Garast and others inform regarding legendary victories, tough trainings, historic battles and the lives of athletes at the moment.
“Those that lived via the golden decade of Zalgiris forty years in the past are nicely conscious of the that means of basketball as a faith for our nation. In the meantime, the youthful technology is aware of higher solely the historic information and the tales of their dad and mom regarding what occurred, how and why. Subsequently, we wished to return to these occasions in as we speak’s dynamic narrative kind and create a fascinating narrative, like a tense basketball competitors. For some, to relive these occasions right here and now, for others to get acquainted with the occasions and their that means from the non-public perspective of basketball gamers. They wished to create a direct dialog not with legends, however with easy, younger males on the time who, whereas not at all times realizing it themselves, merely having fun with what they had been doing, impressed the nation with the assumption that the Crimson Military might possibly be defeated,” says the movie’s director V. Dambrauskas .
A movie by Latvian director Ilze Kunga-Melgaile was offered to Lithuanian viewers within the spring “My Freedom” nominated in three classes this yr. One in all them – the perfect supporting function of the yr – is devoted to actor Darius Meškauskas. A historic drama concerning the battle for Latvian independence, based mostly on the life story of Ita Kozakeviča, a Polish-born journalist, politician and one of the vital outstanding voices of the Latvian independence motion. D. Meškauskas performed the principle character’s husband within the movie, and for this function he received the Latvian Movie Award.
“This function is essential to me due to the character’s confrontation with himself. About repentance… Maybe probably the most priceless factor on this movie is that its authors don’t take the place of judges, however look at folks’s destinies, whether or not they’re able to preserve human values within the background of political transformations”, says D. Meškauskas.
A historic drama based mostly on the lifetime of silent movie star Marija Leikas additionally tells concerning the tough period “Silence of Mary” (dir. Davis Simanis, prod. Justė Michailinaitė, Kęstutis Drazdauskas, Gints Grube, Inese Boka Grube), nominated in three classes. Lured to Stalinist Russia by deception, M. Leiko quickly faces horrible repressions and crushing secrets and techniques of the regime. She is compelled to decide on between fame and love for her granddaughter, between her beliefs and the totalitarian regime of Stalin, steeped in lies.
Among the many greatest documentaries and “Mammoth searching“ (dir. Aistė Stonytė, prod. “Studio Nominum”, Arūnas Matelis, Algimantė Matelienė). The documentary movie takes viewers to 1968, the place the younger and charismatic director Jonas Juraš staged the play “Mammoth Looking” within the Kaunas Drama Theater. The movie reveals the previous reflections of the heroes of that point, returns to an advanced historic interval that modified the lives of many individuals.
Director Elena Kairytė’s movie “Roberta“ (prod. Rūta Jekentaitė, Baltic Productions). This can be a story a few lady who lives in Vilnius and is in search of her place on the planet. Based mostly on the spirit of this age, which generally results in self-destruction, the tape is a portrait of a younger trendy particular person.
The record of nominees for the perfect minority co-production movie of the yr features a joint documentary movie by Lithuanian and Italian creators “Amor“ (dir. Virginia Serpieri Eleuteri, prod. Rasa Miškinytė, Period movie, Stefilm, Edoardo Fracchia), which premiered on the prestigious Venice Movie Competition. This can be a movie a few private relationship with the everlasting metropolis of Rome.
The award ceremony will happen on June 9, within the LVSO live performance corridor. Viewers are invited to look at the dwell broadcast of the Crimson Carpet from 6 p.m. on the LRT.lt portal and on the LRT PLUS channel. The printed of the awards ceremony will happen from 19:00 to 22:00. on the LRT channel and LRT.lt.
The nationwide movie awards “Sidabrinė gervė” are organized by the affiliation AVAKA along with the Lithuanian Movie Middle. Lithuanian cinema is supported by Telia Play. The work of the “Sidabrinės gervės” movie choice and voting commissions is overseen by the worldwide audit firm “Grant Thornton Baltic”.
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2024-05-25 19:51:45