The Contest
It’s the first Christmas without her husband for a recently divorced Silvija. When her two grown-up children gather for a Christmas Eve dinner, she announces that her new boyfriend will join them. Although greeting a strange man is not very pleasant, the children try to accept these changes in their mother’s life. However, her children come to realize that Silvija’s “new beginning” is just a mask for loneliness.
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Director's biography
Saulė Bliuvaitė
Born in 1994, film director and screenwriter Saulė Bliuvaitė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre’s Film Directing programme in 2018. During her time at the Academy, Saulė made four short films that were screened and well received at various film festivals in Lithuania and abroad. Saulė is a co-writer and co-editor of the feature film “Isaac” (2019), directed by Jurgis Matulevičius. Saulė is a director of the interdisciplinary audio-visual performance “Synth Porn”, which premiered at the Vilnius International Theatre Festival Sirenos in 2020.
