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Followed by a recorded Q&A with filmmaker Tomas Vengris.

Told through the eyes of 12-year-old Kovas (Matas Metlevski), Lithuanian-born, Washington D.C.-raised filmmaker Tomas Vengris' powerful feature debut is a lyrical drama set in post-Soviet Lithuania. Shortly after the fall of the USSR, Viktorija (Severija Janušauskaitė, ISAAC) returns with her American-born son to reclaim her family estate, with the help of an old flame. It has been 20 years since she escaped. Although he speaks the language, everything is new for Kovas, but he is eager for the distraction of this summer vacation, and to see for himself a country he knows only from his mother's nostalgic tales. But Viktorija has different plans. Consumed by renewed homesickness and tired from her failed marriage, she hopes to stay and start over with her unsuspecting son. But when mother and son finally arrive at their long-awaited destination, they find that their land is now the site of a run-down house occupied by an impoverished Russian family, and they must reconsider what it really means to come home. Winner, Best Baltic Film, 2019 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Official Selection, 2019 Busan, Denver and Cleveland film festivals.

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