Grandpa And Grandma

The documentary – animation is based on a life story of director’s grandparents who were exiled to Siberia by Soviets in 1948. The severe period of Lithuanian history is being told in a personal way, in genre of a fairytale. The story teller is a little girl, who sees the events in her own child way. The visual basis of the film consists of extant family photographs together with the national archive material and animation inserts.

Information

Year

2007

Genre

Documentary

Duration

28'

Production country

Lithuania

Dialogues

Lithuanian

Team

Director

Giedrė Beinoriūtė

Producer

Valdas Navasaitis, Jurga Gluskinienė

Script

Giedrė Beinoriūtė

Editing

Marius Kavaliauskas

Sound designer

Saulius Urbonavičius

Composer

Indrė Stakvilė

Voice by

Storyteller - Urtė Krukonytė

Production company

VG studija

Contacts

Jurga Gluskinienė

jurga@monoklis.lt

Director's biography

Giedrė Beinoriūtė

Giedrė Beinoriūtė was born on August 23, 1976. Graduated from The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Film and TV department with MA in audiovisual arts in 2001. Since 1999 directed and wrote seven fiction and documentary short films and worked as an assistant director with the established Lithuanian filmmakers Šarūnas Bartas ir Arūnas Matelis.

Since 2004, member of Lithuanian Filmmakers Union. Since 2007, teaching script writing and TV directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. In 2002 Giedrė Beinoriūtė was awarded with a prize from Lithuanian Ministry of Culture for the best professional debut in the arts. In 2005 she was awarded by the proze of Lithuanian Filmmakers Union for the documentary film “Vulkanovka”. Since 2007 she also teches in Skalvija Film Academy, works as a tutor in cinema workshops.

Filmography

My Lonely Friends / Mano vienišos draugės (1997, short fiction)
Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister / Mama, tėtė, brolis, sesė (1999, short fiction)
City of TrolleyBusses / Troleibusų miestas (2002, short documentary)
Existence / Egzistencija (2003, short fiction)
Vulkanovka. After the Grand Cinema / Vulkanovka. Po Didžiojo kino (2005, short documentary)
Grandpa and Grandma / Gyveno senelis ir bobutė (2007, short documentary-animation)
The Balcony / Balkonas (2008, short fiction)
Conversations on Serious Topics / 7 pokalbiai rimtomis temomis (2012, documentary)
An expert / Specialistė (2012, short documentary)
Breathing Into Marble / Kvėpavimas į marmurą (2018, feature fiction)