Back to the Family
2025 / feature film / LT-FR-PL-LV
About
Upon hearing her beloved grandmother is dying, a young woman returns to rural Lithuania, where she must confront a past she’s tried to forget.
A film by Šarūnas Bartas, an icon of Lithuanian cinema whose work has graced the world’s top festivals for over two decades, from Cannes to Venice. Unflinching in its exploration of difficult subjects, Bartas’ latest film meditates on the post-Soviet legacy, generational trauma, and the fragile yet persistent ways people find to break free from stagnation.
Festivals & Awards
- 2025 / Rotterdam IFF, Big Screen Competition
world premiere - 2025 / New Horizons IFF, Masters Section
Credits
| Director | Šarūnas Bartas |
| Cinematography | Lukas Karalius, Šarūnas Bartas |
| Editing | Lucie Jego |
| Music | Gabrielė Dikčiūtė, Paweł Mykietyn |
| Production design | Sabine Strauberga |
| Costume design | Sabīne Strauberga, Katrīna Liepa |
| Make up | Dalia Baltuškienė, Fiona Rosselini |
| Cast | Indre Endriukaite, Neringa Puidokaite, Rima Paškauskaitė, Rolandas Junevičius |
| Producers | Sharunas Bartas, Gints Grube, Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kamińska, Jurga Kaye, Janja Kralj, Tadeusz Król, Alina Lu, Jurijus Stancikas, Mateusz Szulc, Izabela Wójcik |
| Production company | Studija Kinema (Lithuania), Kinoelektron (France) |
| Co-production | Message Film, CineLine, EDelivery (Poland), Mistrus Media (Latvia) |
| World sales | KinoElektron |
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