Happy Next Year!

Laimingų kitų!
Lithuania
2024
Fiction
18 min.

Director | Lukas Kacinauskas
Script | Lukas Kacinauskas
Operator | Vytautas Katkus
Editing | Lukas Kacinauskas
Sound designers | Auksė Jurevičiūtė
Composer | Mindaugas Juška
Main cast | Petras Kuneika, Augustė Ona Šimulynaitė, Miika Pihlak
Producers | Brigita Beniušytė, Marija Razgutė
Production company | M-Films (VšĮ „Čiobreliai”)

 

On New Year’s morning, Sharunas wakes up next to the charming guy Martin, while his girlfriend Iveta is in the shower. Sharunas can’t help but wonder if things will ever be the same again. Meantime, Martin wishes him a Happy Next Year.

 

About the director:

Lukas Kacinauskas (b. 1992) is an up-and-coming film director and screenwriter. Before taking up film directing, he started out as an actor. He obtained a BA in Film Directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2020 and an MA in the same field in 2022. His debut film I WAS MAX (2021) was screened at major European film festivals. The film was also selected for the EFP Future Frames programme at Karlovy Vary FF. HAPPY NEXT YEAR (2024) is his second film, which was screened at Vilnius International FF and Uppsala SFF.