Girls Don’t Cry + Q&A with Lina Lužytė

Lina Lužytė was born in Vilnius in 1985. In 2011, she completed her master’s degree in film directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. Since then, she has made three feature films – Forever Together (premiered at Karlovy Vary, 2016), The Castle (premiered at Galway Film Fleadh, 2020), and Johatsu (premiered at Tallinn Black Nights), and two documentaries: Igrushki (2012) tells the story of toy makers persecuted by the Belarusian militia, and her latest documentary work, Picnic in Moria (2022), was filmed in Europe’s largest refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece.

Lužytė’s work often focuses on people in unbearable or even grotesque circumstances, and her films are characterized by subtle, often uncomfortable humor. The director is currently working on a feature-length dramatic comedy, Kapeika, in which capitalism is criticized through an absurd incident involving a broken BMW mirror.