Viktorija Zobielaitė

A corrupt politician tries to get some decency points by marrying his beloved daughter to a simple farm guy.

Middle-aged Arūnas is looking for a way to escape the pain of his wife's betrayal, while 17-year-old Ilona is looking for a substitute for the father she never had. Two strangers meet in the night to lean on each other's pain.

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.

Made in collaboration with Marija Olšauskaitė and Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Songs from the compost is a hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life: interdependence, surrender, death, and decay. [Overview Courtesy of Canal Projects]