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The Night Screening

2025 · 110 min

A slow, dreamlike drift through a cinema of the mind, where reality and fantasy blur in a quiet, absurd melancholy.

Directed by: Algimantas Puipa
Genres: Drama
Starring: Aleksas Kazanavičius, Dainius Gavenonis, Rūta Jonikaitė

Tagline: Reality is most organically expressed through the absurd
Overview: Watchmaker stumbles into a mysterious cinema and is enraptured by the sight of movie star Lisa sleeping on the screen. His life changes. A girl he meets in the cinema begins leading him through the strange world of cinematic dreams.

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Directed by: Algimantas Puipa
Genres: Drama
Starring: Aleksas Kazanavičius, Dainius Gavenonis, Rūta Jonikaitė

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
identity
isolation
art
memory
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	3
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Algimantas Puipa
Written by: Algimantas Puipa
Starring: Aleksas Kazanavičius, Dainius Gavenonis, Rūta Jonikaitė, Gintautė Rusteikaitė, Juozas Budraitis, Matas Dirginčius, Robertas Petraitis, Digna Kulionytė
Music: Ričardas Matačius
Cinematography: Linas Žiūra
Runtime: 110 min
Country: Lithuania
Languages: Lithuanian

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