International Short Film Competition

Dummy

Using a faceless doll, a criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group.

SHORTS O’CLOCK III, Monday, March 1, at 18:00 (GMT +2) & rerun on Tuesday, March 2, at 16:00 (GMT +2)

English title:

Dummy

Original title:

Atkūrimas

Director:

Laurynas Bareiša

Country:

Lithuania

Genre:

Fiction

Year

2020

Length:

13'

Dialogues:

Lithuanian

Subtitles:

English, Romanian

Cast:

Indrė Patkauskaitė, Paulius Markevičius, Kęstutis Jakštas, Dmitrij Denisiuk

A quote for the film:

Stay, you weigh almost nothing.

Selective List of festivals and awards:

2020 - Berlinale Short Competition, 2020 - Festival REGARD Saguenay (Grand Prize), 2020 - Palm Spring Short Film Festival (Best Narrative Film)

Director’s bio:

Laurynas Bareiša was born in 1988 in Kaunas. He graduated Applied Mathematics and Cinematography, and in 2016 finished a MA in Film Directing. He recently worked as cinematographer on the feature film Summer Survivors by Marija Kavtaradze (Toronto IFF, Discovery 2018). He directed the short films By the Pool (Venice IFF, Orizzonti 2017) and Caucasus (Locarno FF, Leopards of Tomorrow 2018). At the moment he is developing his first feature film Pilgrims (TorinoFeatureLab 2019).