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THE CASTLE

PILIS

By Lina LUZYTE

ARTBOX - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2020

Monika’s dream to play a one in a lifetime concert is cut short by her mother. However, she stops at nothing to pursue her dream.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- LITHUANIA, IRELAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, LITHUANIAN
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Lina LUZYTE
- Writer(s)
- Lina LUZYTE
- Cast
- Gabija JARAMINAITE, Barbora BAREIKYTE, Jurate ONAITYTE, Andrei CIOPEC, Martyna PESZKO
- Producer(s)
- David COLLINS (Samson Films )
- Synopsis
- This coming of age film follows Monika, a thirteen-year-old Lithuanian girl, after her arrival to live in Dublin. A passionate teenage singer Monika has come along with her mother Jolanta, a professional pianist, who had to take a job in a local fish factory alongside many others in the neighborhood and her heavily demented Granny who requires 24/7 care. Monika, however, keeps pushing her mum to continue music with her, convinced they will make it big until one day they indeed get an invitation to play in ‘The Castle’ - one of the best music venues in Ireland. Jolanta, a pragmatic realist, sells their keyboard and tells Monika they won’t be going to any castles. This doesn’t stop Monika however - she’ll go alone. Monika cooks up a scheme to get the €100 for a hire of the keyboard. Struggling to raise the money she ends up abducting her own Granny and, pretending to kidnap her, demands a ransom from Jolanta, her mother.