In Lithuania, two investigative journalists work segregated from others in an isolated office as if in a cabinet. This cabinet is the only location in the film. It seems that they are in the cabinet, like they are closed, separated from others, even from the other journalists. It’s a slow and minimalistic film. It’s not a film about one specific journalistic research; this film presents a monotonous and nervous atmosphere in this cabinet. The boundaries between truth and falsehood begin to overlap, journalists experience the betrayal of a colleague, the office becomes sweltering and unpleasant.
Documentary Sublime Thirst looks at the paradox of scarcity and lack in nature and human fulfilment. A team of philosophers, physicists, theologians, anthropologists, psychologists and economists reveal lack as a universal code of being, the 'perpetuum mobile' behind everything in our universe. The film is based on a multidisciplinary research that reignites scholarly interest in the phenomenon of lack.
Can you imagine a tourist attraction where people come to see a dying forest? Where they are not only observers, but also the ones being observed and heard by the black birds?
During the interwar period, a Lithuanian geography professor tries to convince the government to establish a backup state overseas, in order to save their country from ruin. However, the idea is mostly mocked and opposed. Still, there is hope in the secret support from the elderly prime minister, who has become disillusioned with politics.
