RŪPINTOJĖLIS
PENSIVE
Trailer
They just got their high-school diploma and so now the party is about to begin. For shy and quiet Marius, this is a unique opportunity to be seen as cool because the original party location has been canceled. He knows an empty house on the edge of a forest. There are also some wooden statues standing around that commemorate some tragic event. When the young party guests maliciously destroy the statues, an avenger with a wooden mask appears and slaughters almost everyone mercilessly and bloodily. Only Marius is being spared... Jonas Trukanas' genre film was successfully sold to a streaming service in the USA, which is programmed by the online portal 'Bloody Disgusting', which specializes in horror and slasher films. Its founder Brad Miska also explains why he appreciates the Lithuanian film so much: "PENSIVE is a dark throwback to the 80s and the boom of slasher cinema. Based on FRIDAY THE 13TH [Shaun S. Cummmingham's American horror film classic, editor's note], the filmmakers took what was great about this era and refreshed it with Eastern European folklore."
Text: Jörg Taszman
Titas Laucius, Jonas Trukanas
Rokas Sydeikis
Iveta Maceviciute
Sarunas Rapolas Meliesius, Gabija Bargailaite
Jonas Trukanas - Jonas Trukanas is a filmmaker based in Vilnius, Lithuania who is most interested in genre films. He graduated with honors in Film Directing from University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, United Kingdom in 2012 and is atwo-time Berlinale Talents alumni (2013 and 2017). His debut short film “Booksmuggler” (2011) won an Audience Favourite Award at Vilnius International Film Festival. His other short films “Ghost I don’t Remember”(2015); “Trolleybus-Man” (2016); and “When the Lights Go Out” (2018) also screened at many international film festivals including Neuchatel Fantastic Film Festival, Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival and Gijon International Film Festival. “Pensive” is his feature debut.
