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A Piece For Two Hands
“I remember the first time I kissed someone whose lips were as big as mine. The feeling was very intense, like meeting someone who had read all my favorite books”, a person from the film recalls. The film unfolds through 23 real or fictional memory fragments told by a man and woman in conversation with each other and with themselves.
Information
Year
2018
Genre
Documentary
Duration
20'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian
Team
Director
Producer
Akvilė Žilionytė
Script
Akvilė Žilionytė
Cinematographer
Vytautas Gradeckas
Editor
Vytautas Gradeckas
Cast
Marius Povilas Elijas Martynenko, Jevgenija Karpikova
Production Company
LMTA
Director’s Biography
Akvilė Žilionytė
Akvilė Žilionytė (b. 1987) studied Linguistics and Literature at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. She has published two books. In 2018, Akvilė got her MA in Film Directing at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her first short documentary “The Daytime Is Not For Me” premiered at Hamburg Short Film Festival 2018, and was screened in Vienna, Tirana, Vilnius, Riga, Berlin, Istanbul and other international film festivals. Her second short documentary “A Piece For Two Hands” had its world premiere at the “Sound & Image Challenge” International Film Festival 2018 in Macau. Akvilė’s newest documentary film “Windows” premiered at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.
Filmography
The Daytime Is Not For Me / Diena man ne (2017, short documentary)
A Piece For Two Hands / Pjesė dviem rankoms (2018, short documentary/fiction)
Windows / Langai (2018, short documentary)
