About Jonas

Old Rifle

After his girlfriends' suicide, Gediminas moves back to his single mother living in a block of flats opposite Kaseta's home. In his attempt to make himself oblivious, the young man works as a taxi driver at night. Grief, self-reproach, mother's alcoholism and illness (epilepsy), pestering and cynicism of the clients picked up from night clubs toss Gediminas into an emotional abyss. The painful experience dissolve the tiny bits of his fragile wish to live. He visits a psychologist, a psychiatrist and a self-group for families of suicides, but one day he breaks down. At a crucial moment, the old Kaseta spots Gediminas through his telescope.

Dreaming the Path

A self-filmed road movie about quest for lost faith. Jokubas Vilius Turas is in desperation to find strength and courage in himself to overcome hardships, frustration and self-destruction. On the dangerous and physically exhausting walk from Lithuania to Spain, he captures what is happening around and inside him on video.