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CHINA SEA

By Jurgis MATULEVICIUS

FILM JAM - as PROD

True Story - Development 2023

Disqualified from sports federation for hitting a girl on a street, martial arts champion spends his days in a cheap Chinese restaurant where he tries to rediscover himself and even find love, but gets entangled in a criminal world that turns his hope for change into another escalation of violence.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- True Story, Drama, Second film
- Countries
- LITHUANIA, ITALY
- Languages
- LITHUANIAN, ENGLISH, CHINESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Jurgis MATULEVICIUS
- Producer(s)
- Ieva CERN, Stasys BALTAKIS
- Synopsis
- Martial arts champion Osvaldas (33) seriously injures a girl in the street and is expelled from the
  sports federation. Not being able to travel and participate in tournaments in China, where he is
  famous, Osvaldas is forced to stay in his dark and desolate hometown city in East Europe.
  Reminiscing of his achievements in the Far East, Osvaldas spends his days in a cheap “China
  Sea” restaurant, where the owner Ju-Long gambles without restraint and secretly engages in
  human trafficking business with local criminals. Lonely and in search for ways to feel adored,
  Osvaldas takes a job as a teenage martial arts coach and decides to fall in love. He keeps
  obsessively pursuing a mysterious woman Skaiste, ignoring the fact that she is a mistress of a
  criminal gang’s leader. Tormented with the idea to save her, Osvaldas gets more and more
  entangled into the world of crime. ‘In the name of love’, his violent nature starts unfolding yet
  again, endangering sincere but fragile relationships that Osvaldas cherishes.
- Partners & financing
- Lithuanian Film Center (already secured)
- Beginning of shooting
- Dec 15, 2022
- End of shooting
- Feb 28, 2023