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Buffet
On New Year’s Eve, a group of female colleagues gathers around a table to celebrate the end of a year. While sharing their stories over a glass of wine, the women feel irritated by the presence of their new colleague, food technologist Lina. “Buffet” depicts the personal struggles that people endure whilst trying to become part of traditional, hierarchical work environment.
Information
Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Duration
7'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian
Team
Director
Producer
Andrėja Čebatavičiūtė
Script
Laura Aliukonytė, Akvilė Gelažiūtė
Cinematography
Laura Aliukonytė
Editing
Darius Šilėnas
Sound designer
Kazimieras Čejauskas
Cast
Augustė Pociūtė, Dalia Vilija Smalskienė
Production company
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LT)
Production designer
Rūta Lečaitė
Director's biography
Akvilė Gelažiūtė
Akvile Gelažiūtė (1990) – fiction and documentary film director and doctoral student of Film Directing at Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy (LMTA). Her feature documentary “Deminas: The Two Towers” (2015) won as The Best Student Movie of the year at Lithuanian national film awards “Silver Crane”. Currently working as a lecturer of Media production in VilniusTech University and doing artistic research on the topic “Absurd Humor Strategies in Cinema” (LMTA).
Filmography
The Best Of The Department / Geriausias skyriuj (2012, short fiction)
There Was No Holy Mary / Marijos nebuvo (2014, short fiction)
Deminas: Two Towers / Deminas: dvi tvirtovės (2015, documentary)
Neregėta Europa / Europe Unseen (2019, feature documentary)
Buffet / Bufetas (2020, short fiction)
Standart Pressure: 34 PSI / 2.2 atmosferos arba vidutinis slėgis (2022, short fiction)
Laura Aliukonytė
Laura Aliukonytė graduated from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2018 with a BA in Cinematography. She is currently doing her MA in Cinematography at the same academy.
Filmography
Buffet / Bufetas (2020, short fiction)
