Renovation, World Premiere at The 59th Karlovy Vary IFF

We are excited to announce that Renovation by Gabrielė Urbonaitė, produced by Studio Uljana Kim in co-production with Mima Films and Harald House, will have its world premiere at the next Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the prestigious Proxima Competition.

The Proxima section features a carefully curated lineup of innovative films making their world, international, or European premieres.

"Gabrielė Urbonaitė’s feature debut is a masterful, contemporary portrayal of the lives of millennials, who on the one hand are exposed to modernity, endless possibilities and Western Europe's constant pressure to perform, while on the other they still carry the traumas of previous generations brought up in the Soviet Union, whose shadows are still alive in the face of current political events". Natalia Kozáková

Gabrielė Urbonaitė (born in 1993, Vilnius, Lithuania) is a writer, director and editor. She directed several short films, including The Swimmer that won the “Silver Crane”, the National Lithuanian Film Award. She participated in Berlinale Talents, Talent Camp Odense, and Reykjavik Talent Lab, and was named Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker in 2020. As an editor, she worked on Lithuanian Film Award-winning Remember to Blink. She holds a BFA in

Film from Emerson College and an MFA in Screenwriting & Directing from Columbia University.

Read more: https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/75/46859-renovation

About the film: http://haraldhouse.com/renovation