Film

I’m Twenty Something

Name: I’m Twenty Something
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2014
Cast: Laurynas Jurgelis, Paulius Markevičius, Julija Steponaitytė, Gelminė Glemžaitė, Oleg Surajev

Dark comedy

A twenty-minute Lithuanian comedy about young adults wrestling with whether anywhere feels like home. Sharp-eyed and wry about ambition, romance, and restlessness, it captures the particular anxiety of a generation raised to want more but unsure what that means. For anyone who's felt caught between where they are and where they thought they'd be.

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