Golden Flask (2021)

• 71%
• 2021
• Documentary
• Jurgis Matulevičius
• Paulius Aničas
• Ana Filipovic
• Andzelika Kucianova
• Aleksandr Shmeliov

Golden Flask captures the daily prosaic routine of the impoverished. We believe it is necessary for the 'normal' society (already entangled within modern technology and absorbed in capitalist nature) to see and remember that there are still others nearby, living differently, drinking and struggling to make ends meet. Those whose needs, feelings, desires and faith are as strong or perhaps even stronger in the sincere emotional scale. These people, though living on the foreign side of the social border unnoticed, seem to have much greater existential dilemmas than most of us; however, at the same time, they may even be happier. Time and space is stretched and altered in the different planet they live in. They don't belong to the world we have, yet they don't seem to care too much. This is the other side of the social border; it's dirty, nasty and scary when perceived by the foreign, although there is a perfect honesty in accepting the truth, pain or the simple joys.