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Open Doors

After her father’s death, Joanne goes back to her childhood home. Things are not the same here anymore, and Joanne and her mother have to find a way to cope with it.

Information

Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Duration
16'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian

Team

Producer
Brigita Beniušytė
Script
Austė Urbanavičiūtė
Cinematography
Mindaugas Zagorskis
Editing
Silvestras Polinauskas, Austė Urbanavičiūtė
Sound designer
Rūta Girnytė, Vilius Daumantas
Composer
Marija Paškevčiūtė
Cast
Paulina Taujanskaitė, Dalia Storyk, Gediminas Storpirštis
Production company
Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy

Contacts

Brigita Beniušytė

Director's biography

Austė Urbanavičiūtė

Austė Urbanavičiūtė (born in 1998) is a film director, screenwriter and interdisciplinary artist creating experimental films and installations. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Film Directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2022, she graduated from the experimental filmmaking course at MetFilm School Berlin, Germany. At the moment she is developing an experimental film course for young filmmakers, works as an assistant director and script supervisor on movie sets in Vilnius, and most of the time travels around the world. Her short film “Dear Dad” (2024) was awarded the Special Jury Mention at Vilnius Short FIlm Festival.

Filmography:

Holy Blood (2019, short experimental)

Pan Opticum (2020, audiovisual performance)

Open Doors / Praviros durys (2020, short fiction)

Dear Dad (2024, short experimental)