A Family Grapples With the Aftermath of Tragedy In Trailer for Locarno Entry ‘Drowning Dry’ From Venice Award-Winner Laurynas Bareiša (EXCLUSIVE)

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Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Three years after winning the Orizzonti Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival with “Pilgrims,” Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša brings his sophomore feature “Drowning Dry” to the main competition at the Locarno Film Festival, taking place over August 7-17.

Dissecting a tragedy that radically changes the lives of two intertwined families, the film is produced by Bareiša and Klementina Remeikaite’s Afterschool and co-produced by Trickster Pictures.

The film’s trailer has been shared in exclusivity with Variety in the build-up to the Festival. “Something similar to what happens in the film happened to me and I kept remembering it in this incomplete way,” Bareiša told Variety of the film’s non-linear structure. “I had no grasp on the exact memory, and I wanted to explore how these moments happen so very fast but also get stuck in your mind, changing through time.

When you see something for the first time, there’s an impact. Then, if you repeat it, it changes. There’s a sense of dread in this inevitability, in the thought that it doesn’t matter how many times you repeat it, the outcome is still the same.” “There is this idea that films have a beginning and an ending.