Lithuanian Film “Tėve mūsų” at Brussels Short Film Festival 2012
Updated 2012-03-22
Lithuanian proser, playwright and director Marius Ivaškevičius’ film “Tėve mūsų” (“Our Father”) (2010, 25 min.) takes part in the international competition of the 15th edition of the Brussels Short Film Festival.
“Our Father” is based on the story of the “Austrian monster”, Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years, which shocked the whole world in 2008, but was forgotten as fast as all stories that take place somewhere far away get forgotten.
“This film is about all “families still living in basements”. The film emphasises the father’s life, as if, divided into two and his “self-deification”. He is a monster, but he is everything to his imprisoned children, a source of survival and life. An ambiguity seems to rise here: to the Christian world “Our Father” are the first worlds of the payer. And to whom the children of the maniac pray? In the film I was more interested not in the sexual aspect of rape but in the sense of omnipotence, the desire to rule and control people, to manipulate them,” says the film director Marius Ivaškevičius (Source: lfc.lt).The Brussels Short Film Festival takes place from 27th April to 6th May 2012.
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