Sand In Your Hair
As time slips away, two aging hearts escape society’s limits, finding freedom and love in the time they have left.
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
Mantas Verbiejus (1975) is a Lithuanian film and theatre director. He graduated in 1999 from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Department of Film and TV Directing. During his studies he made several short films, which were selected for international festivals including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). His debut feature film “Divorce” (2022) attracted many viewers in Lithuania. Mantas has created several musicals for theatre stages, including the highly acclaimed musical “Lituanica”, as well as well-known plays for children in Lithuania: “Happiness is the Fox”, “The Great Teleportation”, “Domas and Thomas”.
Filmography:
Skyrybos (Divorce, 2022), Smelis tavo plaukuose (Sand in Your Hair, 2025)
Director M. Verbiejus created short films, later staged plays () and musicals and rock operas: "Paris Cathedral" (2008), "Jesus Christ - Super Star" ( 2009), Lituanica (2019). In 2020 directed the romantic comedy "Divorce", his first feature film.