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Frost
by Sharunas Bartas

Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region in search of allies and shelter, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war. They approach the frontline in spite of the danger, all the while growing closer to each other as they begin to understand life during wartime.

Original Title: Frost
Countries: Lithuania, France, Poland, Ukraine
Year: 2017
Ratio: 1.85
Sound: 5.1
Length: 115 min
Language: Lithuanian, English, Russian, Ukrainian
Festivals & Awards
2015
  • Cannes Film Festival – Quinzaine des Cinéastes
2017
  • Transilvania Film Festival – Official Selection
  • Locarno International Film Festival – Premio Raimondo Rezzonico Michel Merkt Selection
  • Busan International Film Festival – Official Selection
2018
  • Istanbul Film Festival – Human Rights Competition – Human Rights in Cinema
About Director
Sharunas Bartas

Born in 1964 in Siauliai (Lithuania), artistic director of the film studio Banga in Kaunas, Sharunas Bartas entered the film school VGIK in Moscow and graduated in 1991. He founded the film studio Kinema in 1989 – the first independent film studio in Lithuania. Director, actor and producer, Sharunas Bartas is one of the most important director in Lithuania.

FILMOGRAPHY
  • At Dusk – 2019
  • Frost – 2017
  • Peace to Us in Our Dreams – 2015
  • Eastern Drift – 2010
  • Seven Invisible Men – 2005
  • Visions of Europe – 2004 – Anthology film
  • Freedom – 2000
  • The House – 1997
  • Koridorius – 1995
  • Three Days – 1992
  • Praejusios Dienos Atiminimui – 1990 – Documentary film
  • Tofolaria – 1992 – Short film
“Pure magnificence.”
“This film kind of shot me through.”
“Bartas, is the prince of fatal melancholy, crystallizing shots, expiring feelings and disappearing world.”