World premiere

Sand In Your Hair

Local title
Liiv su juustes
Title in Russian
Песок в твоих волосах
Original title
Smėlis tavo plaukuose
Director
Mantas Verbiejus
Country
Lithuania
Year
2025
Programme
Juozas Budraitis: The James Dean of the Baltics, Special Screenings
Genre
Drama
Subject
society, love, people with special needs, soul-searching, lifestyle, loneliness

Maestro Juozas Budraitis plays a memorable supporting role alongside two other Lithuanian icons: Jūratė Onaitytė and Liubomiras Laucevičius.

Malvina, a retired prima ballerina, dreams of dancing again. Meanwhile, the chain-smoking woman quietly divorces her long-term husband Vincentas. Their marriage was loveless. After a small celebration involving a glass of Bordeaux, she escapes to the port city of Klaipėda, where her passionate lover Kipras awaits her with a new sketch. They enjoy strawberries and champagne. Malvina and Kipras plan to take a ferry to Kiel and then continue by train to Berlin. They have nothing to be embarrassed about now that they are old and have only a few years left.

However, Kipras, a broken singer and artist who has just survived a stroke, often experiences bouts of depression and suffers from dementia. He has escaped from the nursing home, where life felt more like a vegetative existence than reality. Malvina has fallen in love for the first time. They have time to experience more firsts, even if only for a few days.

Edvinas Pukšta

Director
Mantas Verbiejus
Screenwriter
Gediminas Cibulskis
Cast
Jūratė Onaitytė, Liubomiras Laucevičius, Juozas Budraitis, Laima Akstinaitė
Producer
Živilė Gallego
Cinematographer
Rytis Kurkulis
Co-writer
Mantas Verbiejus
Music
Martynas Bialobžeskis
Sound
Jonas Jocys
Runtime
Language
Lithuanian
Subtitles
English
Director
Mantas Verbiejus

Screenings

4th Lux Hall Apollo Kino Plaza
Screening020419 / Liiv su juustes
SubtitlesEnglish
Q&A guestsMantas Verbiejus (Director, Co-writer), Gediminas Cibulskis (Co-writer), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Eglė Mikulionytė (actress), Živilė Gallego (producer)
Q&A duration
Screening duration