The Anatomy of a Film: Augustė Gerikaitė “Glitter Kiss”

Director Augustė Gerikaitė, winner of PÖFF Shorts 2025 New Talents competition, will go behind the scenes of her short film “Glitter Kiss” and speak about the creative process from preparation to filming, the challenges of working with multiple actors on real locations in a limited time frame, and the approach of shaping the story through the eyes of the antagonist. She will be joined by the film’s cinematographer Vasily Shramkov, who will dive deeper into the technical aspects and visual decisions that helped shape the world behind this overnight evolution of a character.