Lithuania noms "Conversations" for Foreign Language OscarSeptember 28, 2013 - 15:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Lithuania's contender for best foreign language Oscar nomination is Conversations on Serious Topics, a minimalist 65-minute documentary featuring kids talking about the world, The Hollywood Reporter said. The film, by documentary and short film director Giedre Beinoriute, is "without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects," according to producers Vilnius-based Monoklis. The main characters are children and teenagers with "a special ability to describe the surrounding world." Through simple shots of children, including those with disabilities -- blind or deaf and dumb -- responding to questions such as: "If you were to draw divorce, what would you draw?" (Initial response from a little blond girl about 10 years of age: "My parents' divorce or in general?"), the director reveals intimate conversations with her subjects that picture today's world as "at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic." Intensely emotionally moving, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. "This film is an experiment. I wanted to film as little and as attentively as possible so that I wouldn't miss a single tiny detail of the body language," Beinoriute, 37, said in a statement. "I refused to film any action on purpose to concentrate on this mysterious mind travel from one eyebrow to another, from chin to eye. You may notice how the idea is born and suddenly it goes back to its origins to ripen." Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |