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Mountains To Climb

Laima Armaliene is a legendary Lithuanian traveler, known for her fearless journeys, guiding young tourists from Lithuania to the highest mountains around the world. „Mountains to climb“ is a documentary, following her last journey – a three day camp for young tourists which she organized in attempt to share the secrets and lessons she learned over the years while traveling in the mountains. This journey will be her hardest mountain to climb.

Information

Year
2015
Genre
Documentary
Duration
30'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian

Team

Producer
Viktorija Astrauskaitė
Script
Marija Stonytė
Cinematography
Gediminas Kairys
Editing
Marija Stonytė
Sound designer
Mindaugas Šmėga, Kazimieras Čejauskas
Composer
Mindaugas Šmėga
Production company
LMTA

Contacts

Director's biography

Marija Stonytė

Marija Stonytė (b. 1991) holds BA and MA degrees in Film Directing from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Prior to that she had completed a course at Skalvija Film Academy. Marija has also studied at the Escola Superior Artistica do Porto, Portugal. She’s made short fiction and documentary films gaining national and international awards, took part in educational projects and seminars both as a participant and a lecturer. She’s lectured film directing and scriptwriting at the Youngblood Film School in Vilnius, has been a jury member at the International Film students meeting of San Sebastian Festival’s 61st edition in 2013. Marija worked in feature films and series of Lithuanian and international directors. She’s been a participant in IDFAcademy in 2016, IDFAcademy Summer School in 2019 and was awarded with The Young Artist Award by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture in 2017.

Filmography

Lunar coast / Mėnulio krantas (2008, short fiction)
Photograph / Nuotrauka (2009, short documentary)
Daily superstar (2009, short dockumentary)
Living in transit (2010, short fiction)
Tick tock against the clock (2010, short fiction)
Before Falling / Paskutinis žmogus, su kuriuo aš kalbėjau (2010, short fiction)
Up and down / Pirmyn-atgal (2011, short documentary)
I’m coming / Manęs laukia (2011, short fiction)
Unfinished sonata / Nebaigtoji sonata (2011, short experimental)
The circle (2011, short fiction)
How are you? (2011, short fiction)
Leave me be / Palikit mane ramybėj (2013, short fiction)
LMTA (2013, short documentary)
Too Young To Drive / Kelių eismo taisyklės (2014, short fiction)
Mountains To Climb / Kalnai kalnai (2016, short documentary)
One Life / Vienas gyvenimas (2019, short documentary)