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The Noisemaker
A distant provincial school is waiting for an official delegation from the Ministry. They’re about to bring a new school bell. This is not what the school needs though. Having shrunk throughout the years, it lacks two pupils to satisfy the governmental quota established for any school in the country to exist. The gift from the capital is a threat for the survival of the school. Anticipating the arrival of the delegation, the principal makes his best to mask the lack of pupils and avoid the unavoidable school closure.
Information
Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Duration
15'
Production country
Lithuania, Sweden
Dialogues
Lithuanian
Team
Director
Producers
Marija Razgutė, Kaśka Krosny
Script
Karolis Kaupinis
Cinematography
Narvydas Naujalis
Editing
Ieva Veiverytė
Sound designer
Sigita Visockaitė
Cast
Valentinas Masalskis, Šarūnas Puidokas
Production companies
m-films (Lithuania), East of West Cinema (Sweden)
Director's biography
Karolis Kaupinis
Karolis Kaupinis was born in 1987, Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2012 graduated from Vilnius University with a MA in Comparative Politics. Since the end of his studies Kaupinis has been working a presenter and editor of a weekly show devoted for current political affairs in Lithuanian National TV. His first short fiction film “The Noisemaker” was selected to Locarno International Film Festival and won a Lithuanian Film Academy award for the best short film of 2015. His debut feature film “Nova Lituania” won as the Best Film at the Athens and Riga International Film Festivals in 2019 and was awarded “Cineuropa” prize during Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris” in 2020.
Filmography
The Noisemaker / Triukšmadarys (2014, short fiction)
Watchkeeping / Budėjimas (2017, short fiction)
Nova Lituania (2019, feature fiction)
