PROGRAM
Laguna
Lagūna
Panorama
On the Pacific coast of Mexico, in the land Ina Marija had chosen as her home before she died too soon, her father and her younger sister Una embark on a journey retracing her steps. There, amidst the extraordinary and resilient nature of the mangroves -in a Laguna battered by hurricanes yet perpetually reborn- they begin to navigate the tender terrain of grief. Sharunas Bartas, directing the film, lays his emotions bare in an act of transmission, allowing for a reconstruction anchored in the natural cycles of life.
Sharunas Bartas
Sharunas Bartas graduated from the VGIK film school in Moscow. He founded Studija Kinema in 1989, the first independent film studio in Lithuania. He directed Three Days (1991), Koridorius (1995), Few of Us (1996) and Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015), among others. Laguna premiered at Giornate degli Autori, Venice.
Technical Data Sheet:
D: Sharunas Bartas
G: Sharunas Bartas, Geoffroy Grison
F: Lukas Karalius, Alina Lu
E: Lucie Jego, Alina Lu
S: Simona Venckauskaite, Gabriele Dikciute, Alex Serbulo, Yuri Laguna
P: Sharunas Bartas, Jurijus Stancikas, Alina Lu, Janja Kralj, Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira, Olivier Père, Rémi Burah, Bertrand Jacoberger
CP: Studija Kinema, KinoElektron, Arte France Cinéma
I: Sharunas Bartas, Una Marija Bartaite, Ina Marija Bartaite, Bryan Ordonez Ruiz
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