The Summer of Sangailé (2015)

Original title

Sangailės vasara

Directed by

Alante Kavaite

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Netherlands, France

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 110 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl spends a summer at her family's countryside home. She forms a close bond with a visiting friend and together they navigate their feelings for each other.

tenderintrospectiveslow-burnatmosphericmelancholicintimatebittersweetvisually contemplative

What happens

The Summer of Sangailė (Lithuanian: Sangailės vasara) is a 2015 romantic teen drama film written and directed by Alantė Kavaitė. It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The film won the directing award in the dramatic world cinema category at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It also won Best Film, Best Actress (Julija Steponaitytė) and best set design (Ramunas Rastauskas) at the Silver Crane Awards. The film was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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