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PEOPLE WE KNOW ARE CONFUSED (ZMONES KURIUOS PAZISTAME)
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Completed - LITHUANIAN - Drama, First film - 102 minutes

Log Line

Set in Vilnius, a modern city still in search of its relation to the past, three parallel stories with three average people marooned in a state of change, looking to the future with hope, but not letting go of constricting and reassuring fears of their past.

Media

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2020 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2021 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2020

Director(s) : Smulkis TOMAS
Writer(s) : Birute KAPUSTINSKAITE
Cast : Gabija JARAMINAITE, Arunas SAKALAUSKAS, Milda NOREIKAITE, Paulius MARKEVICIUS

Producer(s) : Dagne VILDZIUNAITE (JUST A MOMENT)

Synopsis

PEOPLE WE KNOW ARE CONFUSED covers three intimate days with three average people marooned in a state of change, looking to the future with hope, but not letting go of constricting and reassuring fears of their past. Goda (42), a seemingly confident woman, struggles to avoid intimate relationships with other men while dealing with a past trauma, her husband’s loss. Juste (23) lives with a concept of an ‘ideal’ approach to the family, which she did not herself experience. She works in a helpline while feeling stuck in her own relationship with her high-school sweetheart. And Vytas (53), a closet homosexual, takes steps to free himself from marriage, as contemporary Lithuania becomes more open-minded and accepting of the homosexual orientation, which 'did not exist' in Soviet times.

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Country(ies) : LITHUANIA


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