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Lithuanian director's film nominated for European Film Award 2016

BC, Vilnius, 08.06.2016.Print version
"I'm Not from Here", a film by Lithuanian director Giedre Zickyte and Chilean director Maite Alberdi, has been nominated for the European Short Film 2016 Award, reports LETA/BNS.

This is the fourth film by a Lithuanian director ever nominated for a European Film Academy Award and the first one since 2005, the Lithuanian Film Center said.

 

"I'm Not from Here" tells the story of Josebe, an elderly Basque woman from San Sebastian who lives in a nursing home in Santiago de Chile. Everyday she believes that this is the first day of her visit at the home, and everyday she has to realize that it is not.

 

The film has won the Prix EFA Krakow 2016 as the best short film at the international Krakow Film Festival and, at the same time, the nomination for the 29th European Film Awards in the short film category.

 

"I'm Not from Here" is a co-production between Lithuania, Denmark and Chile and is the first result of cooperation between the Lithuanian Film Centre and the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival.






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