A film by Saulė Bliuvaitė
Year: 2024
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Available subtitles: English
Runtime: 99 min.
Original title: Akipleša
Born in 1994, film director and screenwriter Saulė Bliuvaitė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre’s Film Directing program in 2018. Her short film Limousine (2021) received the Best Short Documentary award at the Warsaw Film Festival. Saule is the co-writer and co-editor of the historical drama Isaac, nominated for a FIPRESCI prize at the 2020 European Film Awards. Toxic is her debut feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY
2021 Limousine (short)
CAST
Ieva Rupeikaite
Vesta Matulyte
Giedrius Savickas
Vilma Raubaite
Egle Gabrenaite
CREW
Director: Saulė Bliuvaitė
Screenplay: Saulė Bliuvaitė
Cinematography: Vytautas Katkus
Editing: Igne Narbutaite
Composer: Gediminas Jakubka
Producer: Giedre Burokaite
Executive producer: Juste Michailinaite
Production Company: Akis Bado
2024
Locarno Film Festival | Concorso Internazionale · Golden Leopard for Best Film · First Feature Award · Ecumenical Jury Award
Sarajevo Film Festival | Kinoscope
Helsinki International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival | Vanguard
Calgary International Film Festival | International Narrative Competition
An impressively tough-minded debut feature with glimmers of tenderness and humor as female friendship takes root in a hopeless place.
Guy Lodge, Variety
Gritty and keenly observed, the film benefits from a pair of excellent performances from the young, first-time leads.
Amber Wilkinson Screendaily
The director intuitively captures vibrations that cannot be verbalised and that only imagery can convey.
This makes the film mesmerisingly cinematic, in the most intimate sense of the term.
Mariana Hristova, Cineuropa