“Lithuanian Filmmmmaker and Editor Gabrielė Urbonaitė Explores The Presures on Young Women in Her Feature Directorial Directorial Debut Renovation, Which Willnup -Competition in Theater in the Theater in. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The MOVIE STARS ZYGIGMANTE ELENA JAKSTAITė (European Shooting Star 2021), Šarūnas Zenkevičius (European Shooting Star 2025) and”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Movie Stars öygimante Elena Elena Jakštaitė (European Shooting Star 2021), Šarūnas zenkevičiusUnder the Volcano by Damian Kocur, 2024). The Film’s Cinematographer Vytautas Katkus Will Also Be in Karlovy Vary, Premiering His Directorial Debut Feature The visitor In the Festival’s Main Competition.
Now, Thr Can Exclusively Reveal The First Trailer for the Movie About a Young Woman Feeling The Pressure to Be Settled and Successful by The Time She Turns 30.
Ilona, A perfectionist 29-year-OLD, Lives in Present-Day Vilnius, Lithuania. “AT this turning point in her life, she begins to quest how’s she trly wants to live. She moves into a semingly perfect apartment with her boyfriends Synopsis. “But as the building’s renovation begins, t not just cracks in the wars that are reveailed – Ilona’s Inner Doubts Also Start to Surface. She Strikes Up an Unexpecated Friendsip Worker.
But Things threaten to get more dicey from there. “Their Connection Deepens her uncertainty,“ Highlights the synopsis. “Does she realy want to settle Down and Start A Family?”
Urbonaitė Is Familiar with Such Creeping Doubts. “Renovation Was Born of A Personal Sense of Disorientation As I Approached 30 – That Feeling of Being Froms From Wheing You Thought You Be in Life,“ She Explans. “I Wanted to Explore the Tension Between Freedom and Pressure at this Age: The Openness to Change and the Growing Realization that Time and Choices Are Limited. For My Generation, This Experie Uncerty But Also by the Lingering Weight of Soviet-Aera Traumas and the War Unfolding on Our Doorstep.
Renovation was owned by Uljana kim for Lithuania’s Studio Uljana Kim, Winner of the Europeanages International Co-Production Award 2023 at The European Film ACADEMY, LATVIA MIMA House. It is Support by the Lithuanian Film Center, the National Film Center of Latvia, and LRT.
Kim Founded Her Production Outlet in 1997 and HAS Since Produced and Co-PowcedCed 37 Fiction and Documentary Features. ITS LATEST TITLES INCLUDE Two ProseCutors by Sergei Loznitsa, WHICH RECENTLY Premiered in the Cannes Film Festival Competition), FIVE AND A Half Love Stories in An Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania by Tomas Vengris, and Mariupolis 2 by mantas kvedaravius.
The Trailer for Renovation Shows A Bit of Home Life, The Start of A Renovation, and Some Awkward Social Situations, Including Ilona Brainstorming a Poem at – Well, Let’s Say An Inoportune Time, As You Will See. Watch The Trailer Below.
Kviff 2025 Takes Place July 4-12 in The Picturesque czech spa Town of Karlovy Vary.