Marija Kavtaradzė
약력
Marija Kavtaradze graduated from the Academy of Music and Theater, Vilnius, with a BA in directing. She has been making films and writing screenplays for films since 2010. Since her debut in the film industry, Marija Kavtaradze was immediately noticed and appreciated by the Lithuanian film community. Marija Kavtaradze's short films The Last Man (2011) and I Am in My Twenties (2015) were awarded Silver Crane Eggs for best student work. Marija Kavtaradze (along with director Andrius Blaževičius and her sister Tekle Kavtaradze) has also been awarded the Silver Crane for the script of the movie The Saint.
Marija Kavtaradze’s best-known movie Summer Survivors appeared in theatres in 2018. It opened Toronto Film Festival in 2019, the film received a special viewer award at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy; it was recognized as the Best Baltic Film at the Tallinn Film Festival, and it also won Young Jury Prize at Tofifest Festival in Poland, 2019. The film was voted the best Lithuanian film at the Film Spring Awards.
Screenplay
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
Director
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
Casting
Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.
Self
Film school students try to tackle the problem of the missing additional crosswalk to the Sluškai Palace.
Casting
A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.
Screenplay
정신병적 증상을 겪고 있던 남자친구가 사라진다. 마리아는 그를 돕기 위해 결심하고 도시 곳곳을 누비며 여러 단서를 쫓아가지만 매번 간발의 차이로 놓치고 만다. 마리아는 어려운 상황 속에서도 사랑과 자유 모두를 얻기 위해 분투한다.
Casting
정신병적 증상을 겪고 있던 남자친구가 사라진다. 마리아는 그를 돕기 위해 결심하고 도시 곳곳을 누비며 여러 단서를 쫓아가지만 매번 간발의 차이로 놓치고 만다. 마리아는 어려운 상황 속에서도 사랑과 자유 모두를 얻기 위해 분투한다.
Writer
야심 찬 젊은 심리학자 인드레는 병원의 연구 특전을 얻는 대신 두 명의 환자를 다른 정신과 병동으로 이송하는데 마지못해 동의한다. 외향적인 파울리우스는 조울증 조증 단계에 있다. 내면의 상처로 인해 내성적인 주스테와 극단적인 대조를 이루지만 이들은 자신들을 규정하는 내부 세계의 전투를 힘겹게 이끌어 나가는 공통점이 있다. 이들은 바깥 세상으로 나가 친구들과 함께 웃음을 나누며 생존을 위한 여정을 같이하게 된다.
Director
야심 찬 젊은 심리학자 인드레는 병원의 연구 특전을 얻는 대신 두 명의 환자를 다른 정신과 병동으로 이송하는데 마지못해 동의한다. 외향적인 파울리우스는 조울증 조증 단계에 있다. 내면의 상처로 인해 내성적인 주스테와 극단적인 대조를 이루지만 이들은 자신들을 규정하는 내부 세계의 전투를 힘겹게 이끌어 나가는 공통점이 있다. 이들은 바깥 세상으로 나가 친구들과 함께 웃음을 나누며 생존을 위한 여정을 같이하게 된다.
Writer
Lithuanian provincial town is facing the economic crisis in 2008. Vytas gets fired from the factory. Pushed by his wife, he immediately starts looking for a new job, but not really successfully. After having his haircut done, Vytas starts looking for a new love affair with a hairdresser Marija, but not really successfully, either. Finally, Vytas gets involved into a third search - he starts looking for a guy who posted video on youtube, claiming he saw Jesus Christ in their town. This is the only time he succeeds.
Writer
Greta, a young woman, returns to Lithuania from abroad to find that her mother turned her room into a hair salon. While thinking of what to do next, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides that the best course of action is to build one outside her mother’s apartment building and live in it. Greta’s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighbourhood – not because it causes them any inconvenience, but simply because it annoys them.
Director
Greta, a young woman, returns to Lithuania from abroad to find that her mother turned her room into a hair salon. While thinking of what to do next, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides that the best course of action is to build one outside her mother’s apartment building and live in it. Greta’s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighbourhood – not because it causes them any inconvenience, but simply because it annoys them.
Writer
It's a sad comedy about twenty something's generation and the question 'if somewhere is better?'
Director
It's a sad comedy about twenty something's generation and the question 'if somewhere is better?'
Writer
Milda is planning to spend a night with her friends, but the news of her grampa's death slowly sets in.
Writer
It’s a real challenge to get into the girls dormitory. You have to be careful, you have to be silent, nobody can notice you. Ben and Vega are sixteen years old. Ben and Vega are in love. Ben comes to Vega. Vega is waiting for Ben. You know the rest.
Director
It’s a real challenge to get into the girls dormitory. You have to be careful, you have to be silent, nobody can notice you. Ben and Vega are sixteen years old. Ben and Vega are in love. Ben comes to Vega. Vega is waiting for Ben. You know the rest.
Director
Normal people don't explode themselves!? Film was nominated for Sidabrine Gerve Award for Best Student Film 2013.
Writer
Waiting that makes you grow up. Saule (15) and Liucija (6) are two sisters living alone, waiting for their parents who have temporarily gone to London in search of work. The biggest responsibility falls on older Saule's shoulders - she must take care of Liucija, look after home while dealing with the usual issues of a teenager's life. With so much on her plate and the huge stress Saule is unable to fit in with her peers. The girls do their best to live on their own and struggle with reality but sometimes being a grown-up is just too hard.
Screenplay
Three women – a mother and two daughters – decide to spend the last summer weekend together in a remote village. As soon as they leave the city, one conflict follows another, forcing them to confront themselves and to accept this bond for what it truly is.
