Breathing into Marble

"Beinoriūtė Flirts with The Tropes Of Genre Cinema"

Cineuropa
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Giedrė Beinoriūtė
  • Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia 2018
  • 97 minutes
  • Lithuanian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Izabele and Liudas live in their rural house with their son Gailius, who suffers from epilepsy. One day Izabele talks her husband into adopting six-year-old Ilja, a little boy from a children’s home. With the arrival of the new addition, family life starts to change drastically for all of them…

Giedrė Beinoriūtė’s feature debut is based on the novel by Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė and is a taut psychological drama. “Breathing into Marble is about an attempt to warm up stone. It may be impossible, but it’s worth trying,” says Giedrė Beinoriūtė.

Feature Debut


  • Director Giedrė Beinoriūtė
  • Production Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
  • Script Giedrė Beinoriūtė
  • Cinematography Audrius Kemežys
  • Editing Armands Začs, Giedrė Beinoriūtė
  • Music Vestards Šimkus
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Airida Gintautaitė, Sigitas Šidlauskas, Guna Zarina, Kristupas Cicėnas
  • Source Just a moment, Vilnius