Baltic premiere

Twittering Soul 3D

Local title
Sädistav hing 3D
Title in Russian
Щебечущая душа 3D
Original title
Čiulbanti siela 3D
Director
Deimantas Narkevičius
Country
Lithuania
Year
2023
Programme
Baltic Film Competition
Genre
Fantasy
Subject
superstition, mysticism

When the two of us went dancing, the Earth was rumbling underneath my feet.

This modernised forest fairy tale is the first ever Lithuanian fiction film using stereoscopic illusion. After 12 years, renowned visual artist Deimantas Narkevičius reverts to cinema with Kyiv-bound harmless witches, weaving fairies, biting snakes, and growing stones. With DoP Eitvydas Doškus he wittily integrates 3D images into his storytelling. This poetical mystery is set in the last years of the 19th century, filmed in gorgeous South Lithuania, voiced with unique ethnographic music and folk songs in a unique dialect of Lithuanian mixed with old Polish.

Storyteller Deimantas magically reveals Doomsday Eve from myths, rituals, prayers, old folks’ warnings, bad signs, and holy chants. The world will go mad with a lot of swearing, bickering, and drinking. A wealthy landlord experiments with a rare stereoscopic device while cutting old photos. In one of them, he sees the revolutionary and pioneer of stereoscopic photography Stanislaw Filibert Fleury. The landlord’s daughter advises not to walk around barefoot during a storm. Bitten by a serpent he promises to go to the dark-haired healer in a dream. She seduces a Hornpiper, who keeps a magical secret – his soul flies like a bird.

Edvinas Pukšta

Director
Deimantas Narkevičius
Screenwriter
Deimantas Narkevičius
Cast
Augustė Šimulynaitė, Laima Akstinaitė, Greta Petrovskytė, Valentinas Krulikovskis, Alekasas Kazanavičius
Producer
Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
DoP
Eitvydas Doškus
Composer
Miša Skalskis
Runtime
Language
Lithuanian
Subtitles
English

Award for Best Baltic Film, grant of 5000€ from Piletilevi

Screenings

7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening120704 / Sädistav hing 3D
SubtitlesEnglish
Q&A guestsDeimantas Narkevičius (Director, Screenwriter)
Q&A duration
Screening duration
8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening130804 / Sädistav hing 3D
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
6th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening160602 / Sädistav hing 3D
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer
Q&A with the filmmaker