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Original name: Seses
English name: Drowning Dry
Year: 2024
Run time: 88 minutes
Language: Lithuanian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Lithuania, Latvia
Director: Laurynas Bareiša
Producer: Klementina Remeikaitė
Cast: Gelminė Glemžaitė, Agnė Kaktaitė, Paulius Markevičius, Giedrius Kiela
Screenplay: Laurynas Bareiša
Cinematographer: Laurynas Bareiša
Editor: Silvija Vilkaitė
Sound Designer: Julius Grigelionis
Costume Designer: Laura Kraukle
Production Designer: Sigita Šimkūnaitė
Production Company: Afterschool Production
World Sales: Alpha Violet
Born in Lithuania in 1988, Laurynas Bareiša graduated in applied mathematics and cinematography, and he earned an MA in film directing. He recently worked as cinematographer on the feature films Summer Survivors (2018) and Slow (2023) by Marija Kavtaradzė. He directed the short films By the Pool (2017), Caucasus (2018), and Dummy (2020). His first feature film, Pilgrims (2021), was awarded the prize for the Best Film in the Orizzonti Competition of the Venice Film Festival.
Together with her sister Juste's family, Ernesta, her husband Lukas, and her son are spending the weekend at a country house after Lukas's victory in a mixed martial arts tournament. The families are swimming in a nearby lake, having dinner, discussing family finances. After a near-tragic accident, the sisters become single mothers. The film follows the sisters' life in the aftermath of the tragedy.
