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Pilgrims, Lithuanian’s official entry for the 2023 best international feature Oscar, is a murder mystery about a solved murder. Laurynas Bareisa’s impressive debut — which premiered in Venice last year —subverts every expectation of the tired true-crime genre to focus on the scars that violence leaves on survivors’ families.
The plot follows Indre (Gabija Bargailaite) and Paulius (Giedrius Kiela) as they travel through the nondescript town of Karmėlava, a sleepy suburb of Lithuania’s second city, Kaunas, retracing the final steps of Matas, a young man close to both of them, who was assaulted, abducted and killed in a horrific random attack four years prior. Like devotes following the stations of the cross, Indre and Paulius visit the spot where Matas was kidnapped, find the car he was abducted in, locate the river where the killer dumped his body. They aren’t trying...
Pilgrims, Lithuanian’s official entry for the 2023 best international feature Oscar, is a murder mystery about a solved murder. Laurynas Bareisa’s impressive debut — which premiered in Venice last year —subverts every expectation of the tired true-crime genre to focus on the scars that violence leaves on survivors’ families.
The plot follows Indre (Gabija Bargailaite) and Paulius (Giedrius Kiela) as they travel through the nondescript town of Karmėlava, a sleepy suburb of Lithuania’s second city, Kaunas, retracing the final steps of Matas, a young man close to both of them, who was assaulted, abducted and killed in a horrific random attack four years prior. Like devotes following the stations of the cross, Indre and Paulius visit the spot where Matas was kidnapped, find the car he was abducted in, locate the river where the killer dumped his body. They aren’t trying...
- 11/18/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reason8 handles worldwide sales on the film.
Lithuania has selected Laurynas Bareisa’s Pilgrims as its entry to the international feature film category at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Pilgrims won the best film award when it debuted in the Horizons section at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Subsequent festival prizes included best screenplay at last year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
It was then nominated for 11 prizes at this year’s Lithuanian Film Awards, winning four – best film, best director and screenplay for Bareisa, and best actor for Giedrius Kiela.
UK-based Reason8 is handling world sales on the film, and has previously...
Lithuania has selected Laurynas Bareisa’s Pilgrims as its entry to the international feature film category at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Pilgrims won the best film award when it debuted in the Horizons section at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Subsequent festival prizes included best screenplay at last year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
It was then nominated for 11 prizes at this year’s Lithuanian Film Awards, winning four – best film, best director and screenplay for Bareisa, and best actor for Giedrius Kiela.
UK-based Reason8 is handling world sales on the film, and has previously...
- 9/20/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Reason8 handles sales on the title.
London-based sales agent Reason8 has scored key deals on Laurynas Bareiša’s debut, Lithuanian title Pilgrims, with Dekanalog picking up for North American theatrical distribution, and HBO taking rights for Central and Eastern Europe.
Dekanalog will release the title theatrically in the US in early 2023, while HBO releases in Central and Eastern Europe in August 2022.
Pilgrims won the Venice Horizons award for best film in 2021. It follows a man and woman united by a common tragedy – the death of his brother and her boyfriend – who find themselves tormented by the past.
It is produced...
London-based sales agent Reason8 has scored key deals on Laurynas Bareiša’s debut, Lithuanian title Pilgrims, with Dekanalog picking up for North American theatrical distribution, and HBO taking rights for Central and Eastern Europe.
Dekanalog will release the title theatrically in the US in early 2023, while HBO releases in Central and Eastern Europe in August 2022.
Pilgrims won the Venice Horizons award for best film in 2021. It follows a man and woman united by a common tragedy – the death of his brother and her boyfriend – who find themselves tormented by the past.
It is produced...
- 5/12/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Pilgrims (2021).For over fifty years since its inception in the early 1970s, New Directors/New Films has served as a formidable platform for emerging voices in world cinema. Often a bolder, more daring cousin to the New York Film Festival, each spring its lineups offer globe-trotting samples of first and second independently produced features and shorts. It’s a small oasis one visits to glimpse the future of movies, one that’s been home to the early works of directors as disparate as Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Christopher Nolan, Wong Kar-wai, and Kelly Reichardt. In a strong edition, as this one was, its selection will sponge something of our zeitgeist and spotlight titles redefining and defying conventional genres. One such example this year was Laurynas Bareiša’s Pilgrims, winner of the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival. The film follows Paulius and Indre (Giedrius Kiela and Gabija Bargailaite), two thirty-somethings from...
- 4/27/2022
- MUBI
Journeys of self-discovery usually involve expeditions through unexplored lands, but when you’re a stranger to yourself, you can be a pilgrim even in your backyard. This year’s winner of the Horizons award at Venice, which is currently playing at Belgrade Faf (Auteur Film Festival), directed by Laurynas Bareisa, makes for a solemn experience with chilling realism that will at times be punctuated by instances of dark humour to ease the atmosphere.
Paulius (Giedrius Kiela) is a loveable middle-aged wastrel, haunted by the memories of his dead brother Mateus, who was murdered four years ago, which put him in a bad state of depression. The perpetrators have been caught, the witnesses have delivered their statements, the jurors have deliberated and for the rest of the world, the case was closed. But for Paulius and Indre (Gabija Bargailaite), Mateus’s girlfriend, the memories of their loved one are just as fresh.
Paulius (Giedrius Kiela) is a loveable middle-aged wastrel, haunted by the memories of his dead brother Mateus, who was murdered four years ago, which put him in a bad state of depression. The perpetrators have been caught, the witnesses have delivered their statements, the jurors have deliberated and for the rest of the world, the case was closed. But for Paulius and Indre (Gabija Bargailaite), Mateus’s girlfriend, the memories of their loved one are just as fresh.
- 12/4/2021
- by Nikola Jovic
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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