Akipleėša
TOXIC
Performance
13-year-old Marija is sent by her mother to live with her grandmother in a desolate small town in an industrial provincial town. Tall, slim and with a slightly crooked gait, she is bullied by the other girls at school. Kristina in particular has it in for her, that is until a heated argument unexpectedly results in a close friendship. Together, the two apply to a dubious modelling agency that promises the girls a way out of their dreary reality. And yet the road ahead is marked by dangerous beauty ideals, extreme diets and toxic relationships. Between the thumping beats and epic music video sequences, Marija and Kristina lose themselves in dreams of success. Director Saulė Bliuvaitė fulfilled this very dream herself with her hip yet brutally honest debut work, one which saw her take the Golden Leopard at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
05.11.2024 | 17:00 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (original version with English and German subtitles)
06.11.2024 | 10:00 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)
Saulė Bliuvaitė
Vytautas Katkus
Paulius Anicas
Gediminas Jakubka
Ieva Rupeikaite, Vesta Matulyte,
Giedrius Savickas, Vilma Raubaite, Egle Gabrenaite
Saulė Bliuvaitė - Born in 1994, film director and screenwriter Saule Bliuvaite graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre's Film Directing program in 2018. Herrecent short film „Limousine“ received the Best Short Documentary award at the Warsaw Film Festival. Saule is the co-writer and co-editor of the historical drama„Isaac“, nominated for a FIPRESCI prize at the 2020 European Film Awards. TOXIC is her debut feature film.
