Hunger Strike Breakfast
- Lithuania
- 2024
- 90'
- New Lithuanian Cinema
It is the beginning of the 1990s in Lithuania. Local TV star Daiva gets laid off, when Russian soldiers take control of the television studio she works at. Completely helpless when facing armed men, Daiva decides to start a hunger strike in a small trailer parked just outside the seized television station. There is only a few people who decide to join her, while the soldiers do not even bother to take notice. After the very first day, the fight for taking back the TV station seems a lost one. As the hunger kicks in, the people on strike suddenly realise that what they really desire is the closeness and warmth of other people.
- Directed by: Karolis Kaupinis
- Screenplay: Karolis Kaupinis
- Photography: Simonas Glinskis
- Music: Matīss Čudars, Arnas Mikalkėnas
- Editing: Silvija Vilkaitė-Ramanauskė
- Cast: Ineta Stasiulytė, Arvydas Dapšys, Paulius Pinigis
A film director and screenwriter born in 1987, in Lithuania. He is a graduate of comparative politics at Vilnius University. His short films were screened at the film festivals in Locarno (‘The Noisemaker’ in 2014) and Lisbon (‘Watchkeeping’ in 2017). The full length début film ‘Nova Lituania’ from 2019 had its première in Karlovy Vary, winning six awards of the Lithuanian Film Academy. It was also the Lithuanian candidate for Academy Awards. The film ‘Hunger Strike Breakfast’ is his latest full feature film.
