20th Annual European Union Film Festival
Screening Dates
  • November 27, 2017 6:30
Lithuania

Life for an artist behind the Iron Curtain is powerfully portrayed in top Lithuanian director—and two-time EUFF alumnus—Donatas Ulvydas’s searing, politically-charged period drama. ​“Set in the early 1970s in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, Emilia is the story of an aspiring young actress in pursuit of a career in theatre, who’s torn between loyalty to the system and dreams of freedom. Drawing strength from a mystery buried deep in her memories of childhood, Emilia walks a fine line between passion, intrigue, and betrayal, only to become a symbol of national defiance” (Fralita Films).