Lithuanian Film Festival: The Jump
44 Lorne St, CBD, Auckland
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Live Q&A with director Giedre Zickyte after the screening.
It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970. The US coast guard sets out to meet a Soviet vessel anchored just off the shore of Martha’s Vineyard. A one-day conference between the two nations has been set to discuss fishing rights in the Atlantic Ocean. While the talks are in full swing, Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka jumps across the icy water onto the American boat in a frantic bid for freedom. To his horror, and to the outcry of the world media, the Americans return him to the Soviets and he is tried for treason. The event sets off a series of protests throughout the US begging for his freedom and all hope seems lost, until new information about Simas’ citizenship surfaces.
Through eye-witness reports, rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re- enactment by now 90-year-old would-be defector Simas Kudirka, director Giedrė Žickytė takes us on a stranger-than-fiction journey that became an inspiration for people, pictures and politics, reaching all the way up to the White House.
AWARDS Warsaw International Film Festival 2020– Best Documentary Award Winner; Durango Independent Film Festival 202; Salem Film Festival 2021 - Special Jury Award Winner and Audience Award Winner.
English and Lithuanian with English subtitles.
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