Saulius Ambrozaitis

Wishing to restore a broken bond with his son, a father throws himself into Vilnius nightlife.

When their father suddenly dies on holiday, his three children who haven’t spoken in years must work together to bring his corps home.

A man who is apathetic about life spends his days in seclusion. He is detached from communication and contact with the outside world. An empty and deserted room demonstrates his detachment from his surroundings, his inner world. Suddenly a woman appears in his world. She brings her strange stories into his world. In a language that the man does not understand, she tries to communicate with him, trying to tell him that everything that is broken can be put back together, the cracks will remain as scars, but with them we can continue our journey. By changing the interior he lives in and his inner world, she makes him interested in life. She makes a man interested in her and in himself.

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

Matas returns to his neighborhood in Vilnius (Lithuania) after fleeing the war in Ukraine. He finds his wife and the friends he left behind when he joined the conflict.

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