Festival EU Film Days 2015 presents film from Lithuania
SANTA – a film by Marius Ivaškevičius was selected as a Lithuanian representative at the EU Film Days 2015 festival in Japan.
EU Film Days is a successful and popular film festival, which aims to demonstrate the vast diversity of the European cinema and is attracting more and more attention in Japan every year. EU Film Days 2015 will be opened in Tokyo on May 29th and in Kyoto on July 1st.
Link: http://eufilmdays.jp/schedule/
Film SANTA is subtitled in Japanese.
SCHEDULE OF THE MOVIE
June 7th (Sunday), 11a.m.
June 18th (Thursday), 7p.m. (with participation of film director Marius Ivaškevičius)
Venue: Tokyo National Film Centre
Access map: http://www.momat.go.jp/FC/information-map.html
July 5th (Sunday), 1:30 p.m.
Venue: National Museum of Kyoto
Access map: http://www.bunpaku.or.jp/info/access/
SANTA tells a heart-breaking, yet hopeful story about a family and the difficulties it goes through. The story revolves in today’s Lithuania and Finland. Inga (Sandra Daukšaitė), a single mother, takes her son Vincas (Ovidijus Petravičius) to Rovaniemi – a small town in Lapland – to visit Santa Claus, played by Jussi (Tommi Korpela), a single actor who instantly falls in love with Inga.
This is a story of love that transcends reality and fantasy. A night ride in a deer-harnessed sleigh through an Aurora-enlightened forest reminds of a fairy tale, yet the reality is completely different. How do two people, who have just met and fallen in love, overcome a terminal disease of a little child? How does one behave in a presence of such painful truth?
“This film is not so much about the fear of dying as it is about the courage to live”, - says film director Marius Ivaškevičius.
