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2015 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show near her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste—a local girl who, unlike Sangaile, lives her life to the fullest with creativity and bravery. As the two girls grow closer, Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret, and finds in her teenage love the only person who truly encourages her to fly.

The Summer of Sangaile is a rare film that takes you by surprise with the honesty of its performances, the poetry of its narrative, and the crispness of its cinematography, which captures the beauty of the girls and the unique Lithuanian scenery equally well. Writer/director Alante Kavaite uses transfixing imagery and exquisite casting to bring to life her distinctly layered story of young love and big dreams. The end result is a rapturous film experience. —T.G.

— T.G.

Screening Details

Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Film Type: International Narrative Feature Films
Country: Lithuania/France/The Netherlands
Language: Lithuanian
Run Time: 90 min.

Sundance Film Festival Awards

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic

Credits

Cinematographer
- Dominique Colin
Actor
- Aist? Dirži?t?
- Julija Steponaityt?
Composer
- Jean-Benoît Dunckel
Producer
- Zivile Gallego
- Antoine Simkine
Editor
- Joëlle Hache
Director
- Alanté Kavaïté
Screenwriter
- Alanté Kavaïté
Production Designer
- Ram?nas Rastauskas
Co-Producer
- Marleen Slot

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