Porno Melodrama

Berlinale Panorama 2011 selection tells an original story about the dangers of love. Jonas enjoys his life with his boyfriend Matas, but he wants to emigrate from homophobic Lithuania. In order to earn money, Jonas accepts to star in a porno film with his ex-girlfriend Akvile. But what if some unrequited love still lingers in Akvile’s heart?

Information

Year

2011

Genre

Fiction

Duration

32'

Production country

Lithuania

Dialogues

Lithuanian

Team

Director

Romas Zabarauskas

Producer

Romas Zabarauskas, Ksenija Koženkova

Script

Romas Zabarauskas

Cinematography

Ville Piippo

Editing

Gintarė Sokelytė

Sound designer

Lina Semaškaitė

Composer

SoulSonic

Cast

Kurtis, Marius Repšys, Vilma Kutavičiūtė

Production company

Rain studio (Lithuania)

Co-producer

Protection of minors (France), Ikifilmi (Finland)

Contacts

Romas Zabarauskas

theosarapo@gmail.com

Director's biography

Romas Zabarauskas

For the last ten years, Romas Zabarauskas has been making provocative, genre-bending films underpinned by queer characters. Romas’ short film PORNO MELODRAMA and subsequent features WE WILL RIOT and YOU CAN’T ESCAPE LITHUANIA tackle the subjects of queer love, resurgent nationalism and politics. The films premiered at the Berlinale in 2011, Moscow International Film Festival in 2013 and New York’s Bushwick Film Festival in 2016 respectively, and have been showing around the world ever since. His latest feature THE LAWYER (2020) is the first Lithuanian feature film focusing on a male same-sex romantic relationship and one of the very few fiction films about the LGBTQ+ refugee experience in Europe.

Filmography

Porno Melodrama / Porno melodrama (2011, short fiction)

We Will Riot / Streikas (2013, feature fiction)

You Can’t Escape Lithuania / Nuo Lietuvos nepabėgsi (2016, feature fiction)

The Lawyer / Advokatas (2020, feature fiction)