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Followed by a recorded Q&A with filmmaker Jurgis Matulevicius.

The debut feature from writer/director Jurgis Matulevicius is an elegant, era-spanning, time-jumping paranoid thriller chronicling the real-life massacre that took place at the Lietukis Garage in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on June 27, 1941, and a post-World War II fictional story of intrigue about a director seeking to tell the story of Isaac, one of the Jewish victims. A story told in three parts, the film opens with a bravura 15-minute tracking shot filmed in stunning black and white with an unflinching look at the grizzly massacre. We then jump ahead 23 years to Soviet Lithuania as celebrated writer/director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from a long stint in the United States with a script in hand featuring uncanny details of the bloody massacre. Initially approved by local authorities, the production starts to see heavy scrutiny from a particularly disgruntled KGB agent who threatens not only to shut it down, but also to expose secrets that threaten the lives of all involved. In the final thrilling chapter, everything comes to a head in a Lithuania where even the slightest mention of the past atrocities overheard at a bar can mean your life. Mostly shot in gorgeously rendered monochrome, the film takes cues from Paweł Pawlikowski's post-World War II black-and-white masterpieces IDA and COLD WAR, with some grit thrown in for good measure. Official Selection, 2019 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival; 2020 Glasgow and Odesa film festivals.

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