CROW LAKE

Feature film

Length: 61 min

Format: 35 mm

Awards:

December 2007 OLYMPIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE (Greece) – the Best Director award

September 2007 LUCAS 2007 ( Frankfurt/Main) award – FICC Laudable Mention

In Crow Lake, the four boys find shelter from the rules imposed by adults in a derelict ex-Soviet military base located alongside a NATO air base. It has become no-man’s-land; bygone military secrets lie buried beneath its bunkers and hangars as modern fighter-jets fly overhead.  The children proclaim the territory their ‘Freedom Zone’: a place where no one can inhibit them. The boys build their own hang-glider in one of the abandoned hangars and prepare for the day they will fly it. Meanwhile, an odd vagabond seeks shelter in no-man’s-land. The boys dub him ‘The Bum’ and brazenly drive him out of the ‘Freedom Zone’. A ‘territorial war’ is declared and the ensuing conflict reveals the children’s differing characters and callings.

Cast:

Dominykas Šagunevičius
Valentinas Masalskis
Paulius Smaliukas
Augustas Juozapavičius
Rapolas Tamuliūnas

Scriptwriters - Inesa Kurklietytė,Veera Tyhtila, Are Nikkinen, Paulius Arlauskas
Director – Inesa Kurklietytė
Director of photography – Dmitrij Gribanov
Producer – Teresa Zibolienė

Co-production with Concept events & media