Mauna

Mauna
Lithuania
2025
Fiction
15 min.

Director | Ieva Juodelytė
Script | Ieva Juodelytė
Director of photography | Martynas Šiaučiūnas
Editing | Juozas Kamenskas
Sound designer | Mykolas Beišys
Main cast | Ieva Gintautaitė
Producer | Viktorija Seniut – Strolienė
Production company | Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

When the mother of four children goes on vacation for the first time, she does not encounter a wonderful natural landscape, but the inconvenience of being without family, household and children, in which she discovers the need to hear herself.

 

About the director:

I am Ieva, a mother of five children, the founder of communities uniting women in creativity and poetry, a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre master’s course in directing, course guides Laurynas Bareiša and Marija Kavtaradze. Topics that include the deep layers of a woman’s experience, faith, creativity and, in general, the fulfillment of a woman are what excites me the most. I choose to talk about those topics through subtle romance and domestic poetry.