Mothers

Lithuania
2021
Fiction
15 min.

 

Director | Birutė Kapustinskaitė
Script | Birutė Kapustinskaitė
Director of photography | Vytautas Katkus
Editing | Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Sound designer | Dominyka Adomaitytė
Composer | Dominyka Adomaitytė
Main cast | Aldona Vilutytė, Laima Akstinaitė, Felipe Souza Melo, Dovilė Šilkaitytė
Producers | Rūta Petronytė, Kęstutis Drazdauskas
Production company | ARTBOX

 

Aldona is the single mother of a daughter, Miglė, who is soon to become a mother herself.
​When Miglė comes to visit for the weekend during the last days of her pregnancy, Aldona tries to show how much she cares, but instead starts to control her daughter. Step by step, Aldona pushes the boundaries between the two, until she crosses the line.

 

About the director:

Birutė Kapustinskaitė is a playwright and screenwriter for cinema, theatre and audio projects. In 2018, she received Lithuania’s national Golden Cross Award for best playwright. Birutė also won the Best Screenplay award at the 2019 Aubagne Film Festival for the screenplay of the feature film Sasha Was Here. She teaches screenwriting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and at Vilnius University. The short film Mothers is her debut as a director.