Upon reading a plot description of Summer Survivors -- the debut feature by Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze -- one may imagine a quirky indie comedy with touches of the absurd. While the film does have its share of lighthearted, funny moments, there is a steady vein of wistful melancholy running through it from frame one. Indre (Indre Patkauskaite) arrives at a small psychiatric hospital, hoping to work with one of the esteemed doctors there. Although she is interested in working with a biofeedback machine, and not actual human beings, she winds up being asked to transport two patients to the seaside town of Palanga (on the opposite end of the small country). She protests, but is pressured into the task. Accompanying her on the trip...
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- 9/10/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The film is the feature debut of Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradze.
Greek sales company Heretic Outreach has added Marija Kavtaradze’s Summer Survivors to its sales slate, ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Discovery section at Toronto International Film Festival.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for the film, above.
The film is a summer adventure following a band of unlikely compatriots: ambitious research psychologist Indre, and Paulius and Juste, two psychiatric unit patients she has reluctantly agreed to transport to another unit at the seaside.
The film is Kavtaradze’s feature debut; her previous credits...
Greek sales company Heretic Outreach has added Marija Kavtaradze’s Summer Survivors to its sales slate, ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Discovery section at Toronto International Film Festival.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for the film, above.
The film is a summer adventure following a band of unlikely compatriots: ambitious research psychologist Indre, and Paulius and Juste, two psychiatric unit patients she has reluctantly agreed to transport to another unit at the seaside.
The film is Kavtaradze’s feature debut; her previous credits...
- 8/31/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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