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Too Young to Drive

Two strangers accidentally meet on a train and immediately find it hard to communicate. Too Young to Drive is a story about the hardship of finding ways to each other.

Information

Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Duration
24'
Production country
Lithuania
Dialogues
Lithuanian

Team

Producer
Gabrielė Banytė
Script
Birutė Kapustinskaitė, Marija Stonytė
Cinematography
Donatas Bakonis
Editing
Marija Stonytė
Sound designers
Tomas Žukauskas, Andrius Kriščiūnas
Music
"Garbanotas bosistas"
Cast
Agnė Kaktaitė, Martynas Nedzinskas
Production company
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LT)

Contacts

Marija Stonytė

Director's biography

Marija Stonytė

Marija Stonytė (b. 1991) holds BA and MA degrees in Film Directing from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Prior to that she had completed a course at Skalvija Film Academy. Marija has also studied at the Escola Superior Artistica do Porto, Portugal. She’s made short fiction and documentary films gaining national and international awards, took part in educational projects and seminars both as a participant and a lecturer. She’s lectured film directing and scriptwriting at the Youngblood Film School in Vilnius, has been a jury member at the International Film students meeting of San Sebastian Festival’s 61st edition in 2013. Marija worked in feature films and series of Lithuanian and international directors. She’s been a participant in IDFAcademy in 2016, IDFAcademy Summer School in 2019 and was awarded with The Young Artist Award by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture in 2017.

Filmography

Lunar coast / Mėnulio krantas (2008, short fiction)
Photograph / Nuotrauka (2009, short documentary)
Daily superstar (2009, short dockumentary)
Living in transit (2010, short fiction)
Tick tock against the clock (2010, short fiction)
Before Falling / Paskutinis žmogus, su kuriuo aš kalbėjau (2010, short fiction)
Up and down / Pirmyn-atgal (2011, short documentary)
I’m coming / Manęs laukia (2011, short fiction)
Unfinished sonata / Nebaigtoji sonata (2011, short experimental)
The circle (2011, short fiction)
How are you? (2011, short fiction)
Leave me be / Palikit mane ramybėj (2013, short fiction)
LMTA (2013, short documentary)
Too Young To Drive / Kelių eismo taisyklės (2014, short fiction)
Mountains To Climb / Kalnai kalnai (2016, short documentary)
One Life / Vienas gyvenimas (2019, short documentary)