INVITATION: film screening - "The JUMP" (April 18, 6.30PM)
The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with Khazar University and other partners, organises the screening of the documentary film "The JUMP" (2020) by the Lithuanian film director Giedrė Žickytė. The screening will take place on 18th of April, 2024, Thursday, at 18:30 in one of cinema halls of Baku.
The duration of the documentary – 85 minutes. The film will be screened in English with subtitles in English and Azerbaijani.
Admission is free, but only by prior registration (as the venue of the screening depends on the number of registered participants). Please register by sending an e-mail to RSVP.az@mfa.lt (specifying the names of the participants and a contact phone) before 17th of April, Wednesday, 17:00. The exact location will be sent to the registered ones.
Through eye-witness reports, rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person reenactment by would-be defector Simas Kudirka, director Giedrė Žičkytė* takes us on a stranger-than-fiction journey that became an inspiration for people, pictures and politics, reaching all the way up to the White House
It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970. The US coast guard sets out to meet a soviet vessel anchored just off the shore of Martha’s Vineyard. A one-day conference between the two nations has been set to discuss fishing rights in the Atlantic Ocean. While the talks are in full swing, Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka jumps across the icy water onto the American boat in a frantic bid for freedom. To his horror, and to the outcry of the world media, the Americans return him to the soviets and he is tried for treason. The event sets off a series of protests throughout the US begging for his freedom and all hope seems lost, until..
*Giedrė Žickytė is an award-winning Lithuanian documentary film director and producer and the co-founder of the production company, MOONMAKERS. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Vilnius Art Academy in 2007. Her films have been selected at numerous international film festivals including IDFA, Hot Docs, Visions du Réel (Sesterce d’or Fondation Goblet Award), Sheffield Doc/Fest (Short Doc Award), IFFR, Camerimage (Golden Frog), DocumentaMadrid (Audience Award), Krakow IFF (European Film Award), etc. Many of her films have been theatrically distributed and broadcast on television internationally. I’M NOT FROM HERE (co-directed with Maite Alberdi) was nominated at the European Film Academy Awards in 2016. MASTER AND TATYANA won 4 "Silver Cranes", the Lithuanian Film Academy Awards including the awards for Best Director and Best Documentary, and was selected as one of “Ten Documentary Film Talents of 2015” by international film critic Tue Steen Müller. In 2016, she was awarded a St. Christopher’s statue by the Vilnius City Council for merits in cinema artwork. Giedrė produced THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE by Iryna Tsilyk which premiered in Sundance 2020 World Documentary Competition and received the Best Directing Award. Giedrė is a member of the European Film Academy, Lithuanian Filmmakers Union, alumni of Berlinale Talent Campus, Sources2, CPH:DOX LAB, EURODOC and dok.incubator.
