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The Mother’s Day

On mother’s day, 16-year-old Nerka, with his other friends from lower class families, have a tradition to steal flowers to give to their mothers. Even though this year is different for Nerka, as he doesn’t know where his mother lives at the moment, he is still determined to greet her. This journey reveals an unexpected truth.

Information

Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Duration
13'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian

Team

Producer
Marija Fridinovaitė, Marija Razgutė
Script
Teklė Kavtaradzė, Kamilė Milašiūtė
Cinematography
Narvydas Naujalis
Editing
Laurynas Bareiša
Sound designer
Ignas Mateika, Kazimieras Čejauskas
Composer
Mantvydas Pranulis
Cast
Rokas Tarulis, Eldaras Gasymov, Gabija Jaraminaitė, Jolanta Dapkūnaitė, Arūnas Sakalauskas
Production company
m-films (LT)
Casting
Marija Kavtarazdė, Ieva Kotryna Skirmantaitė

Contacts

Marija Fridinovaitė

Director's biography

Kamilė Milašiūtė

Kamilė Milašiūtė (b. 1990) graduated from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with BA and MA degrees in Film Directing. Her last two films have been very well accepted. ‘The Mother’s Day’, released in 2018, premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and received Lithuanian Film Academy Award for the Best Short Film of the year. Her second short ‘Through the Fields’ premiered at Telluride Film Festival (2019) in Filmmakers of Tomorrow – Calling Cards programme. Kamilė is currently developing her first feature film.

Filmography

After Rave (2014, short fiction)
Earcraft – Heaven Too Close (2014, short experimental)
The Mother’s Day / Motinos diena (2017, short fiction)
When Children Come Home / Nacionalinės premijos laureatų vaikai (2019, short fiction)
Through The Fields / Laukais (2019, short fiction)