A film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was born in 1988, in Lithuania. He started as a cinematographer, and then made a series of well-received short films, for example ‘By the Pool’ (2017), which was screened in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival, ‘Caucasus’ (2018) and ‘Dummy’ (2020), the latter of which was screened at Berlinale. His full length début ‘Pilgrims’ premièred in Venice in 2021, winning an award in the Orizzonti section, and also three Lithuanian National Silver Crane Film Awards (Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Best Script). The film ‘Drowning Dry’ is his sophomore feature film.
