A LITHUANIAN FILM AT THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Film Aldona by Lithuanian director Emilija Skarnulyte will be screened at the international Edinburgh Film Festival. Film tells a story how in the spring of 1986 a woman named Aldona lost her vision and became permanently blind. The nerves in her eyes were poisoned. Doctors claimed that it was probably due to Chernobyl's Nuclear Power Plant explosion. In the film we follow Aldona through a daily sojourn, to Gutras Park, touching both the past and the present. Aldona will be shown together with other short films in Black Box 4: Bodily Encounters cycle. „Black box 4: Bodily Encounters” will be screened 29 June, 7.20 pm at the Filmhouse 3, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ.
Tickets to the film are available - https://boxoffice.filmhousecinema.com/public/auto_choose_ba.asp?area=51
Born in 1987, the film director Emilija Skarnulytė has studied sculpture in the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy. At present she is studying at the Tromso Academy of Contemporary Art in Norway and works in the fields of video, photography, installation and performance.
Edinburgh International Film Festival was established in 1947 and is the world's oldest continually running film festival. This year’s festival will take place 19 June – 30 June. The EIFF aims to present both UK and international movie premieres and to exhibit the work of film-makers.
