Romas Zabarauskas

For the last ten years, Romas Zabarauskas has been making provocative, genre-bending films underpinned by queer characters. Romas’ short film PORNO MELODRAMA and subsequent features WE WILL RIOT and YOU CAN’T ESCAPE LITHUANIA tackle the subjects of queer love, resurgent nationalism and politics. The films premiered at the Berlinale in 2011, Moscow International Film Festival in 2013 and New York’s Bushwick Film Festival in 2016 respectively, and have been showing around the world ever since. His latest feature THE LAWYER (2020) is the first Lithuanian feature film focusing on a male same-sex romantic relationship and one of the very few fiction films about the LGBTQ+ refugee experience in Europe.