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A filmmaker revisits her family’s emigration from Lithuania to the US in the late 1990s using home-videos.
Genre: Documentary
Stage: Post-production
Contact: akvilezilionyte@gmail.com
Modesta Žemgulytė is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and designer. She holds an MA from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where her graduation film Objects with Stories received the Young Designer Prize. Naples, Florida (2026) is her debut short film after completing her studies.
Akvilė Žilionytė is a Lithuanian film producer and founder of ARTIŠOKAI, with a primary focus on author-driven documentary cinema. She has produced more than ten short films and one feature-length documentary, with her films presented at festivals including Ji.hlava IDFF, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Filmfest Dresden, Drama International Short Film Festival and Vilnius IFF. She is an alumna of EURODOC, ESODOC and IDFA Academy.