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Ari is a high-strung young man trying to reveal the secrets of poetry to a noisy class of elementary school children. Unable to withstand the pressure, he faints in front of the school inspector and subsequently, his father, fed up with his flippancy, kicks him out of the house. As life is slipping from his hands, the young man looks back on the past. Moving from one friend’s couch to another, he searches for his place in the city and the world, and through endless conversations, comes to understand that he is not alone in facing challenges while trying to find a path to adulthood.
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“The film speaks about a young person’s fragility and emotional exhaustion. Ari is a portrait of 21st-century anxiety, recognizable to anyone torn between others’ expectations and conflicts of self-worth. This state unfolds in everyday conversations and moments of silence, highlighting a subtle inner struggle, the burden of decisions, and the effort to find one’s place in the world.” (Programme curator Benita Paplauskaitė)
Awards
World PremiereBerlin International Film Festival, Competition, 2025.
Special Jury MentionGijón International Film Festival, 2025
Credentials
- DirectingLéonor Serraile
- The scriptLéonor Serraille
- PlaysAndranic Manet, Pascal Rénéric, Théo Delezenne, Ryad Ferrad, Éva Lallier, Lomane de Dietrich, Mikael-Don Giancarli, Clémence Coullon, Clyde Yeguete, Claire Bodson, Sophie Cattani
- AssemblyClémence Carré
- CameraSébastien Buchmann
- MusicAnne Dupouy, Charlotte Butrak, Pierre Bariaud, Niels Barletta
- ProducingSandra da Fonseca, Grégoire Debailly, Benoît Roland
- TranslationJulius Jaunius
- DialoguesFrench
- SubtitlesLithuanian, English
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