Before Flying Back to the Earth (2005)
- Original title
- Pries parskrendant i zeme
- Directed by
- Arūnas Matelis
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany, Lithuania
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary shows the daily lives of children being treated for leukemia in a Lithuanian hospital. It focuses on their resilience and moments of humanity without becoming overly emotional or sentimental.
poeticunsentimentallyricalsomberintimatequietresilientmeditative
What happens
Before Flying Back to Earth (originally released in Lithuania as Prieš parskrendant į žemę in 2005) is the first feature-length documentary film by the Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis. In a lyrical, yet unsentimental fashion, it shows the lives of children hospitalized with leukemia in Vilnius Pediatric Hospital - the same place where Matelis' daughter had battled and recovered from this disease some time before the start of production. The film is described as "a poetic, unsentimental Lithuanian documentary about the resilience of (the) human spirit". Its laconic style and its formal simplicity have been likened to haiku by some critics. Before Flying Back to the Earth is the most highly acclaimed recent Lithuanian film and is considered one of the best documentary films of 2005 in the world; it has been shown in numerous festivals. The film is in the Lithuanian language. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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