Two nuclear households — each headed by a pair of sisters — go on a darkly comedian household trip that takes a flip for the all of the sudden tragic in Laurynas Bareiša’s grimly humorous “Drowning Dry.” The movie was Lithuania’s decide for the 2025 Finest Worldwide Characteristic Academy Award, and whereas it didn’t make the lower, “Drowning Dry” beforehand received Finest Director and Finest Efficiency for its ensemble on the 2024 Locarno Movie Competition. As IndieWire solely introduced, Dekanalog will launch the movie stateside on Friday, July 18 at IFC Middle with Bareiša in attendance, adopted by Los Angeles and different main U.S. cities to be introduced.
“Drowning Dry” additionally performed on the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Competition and at New Administrators/New Movies. Written, directed, and shot by Bareiša, “Drowning Dry” tells, per the distributor “the story of two sisters, Ernesta (Gelminė Glemžaitė) and Justė (Agnė Kaktaitė), whose lives are irrevocably altered after a near-tragic accident involving considered one of their kids throughout a weekend getaway with their spouses, Tomas (Giedrius Kiela) and Lukas (Paulius Markevičius).”
The movie finally appears to take a meta flip as the identical occasions are proven from a barely alternative-timeline model of the telling, with refined and offbeat performances from the solid — Ruben Östlund is a becoming reference.
The discharge marks Bareiša’s second collaboration with Dekanalog, who beforehand distributed his 2021 Venice Worldwide Movie Competition’s Horizons Award-winning debut function, “Pilgrims.”
Dekanalog is devoted to the discharge of distinctive filmmaking voices and musical scores from all over the world, based in 2020 by Elijah Drenner, Lysa Le, and George Schmalz. Dekanalog has just lately distributed the Impartial Spirit Award-nominated C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s “Mami Wata,” final 12 months’s Dutch Academy Awards submission Ena Sendijarević’s “Candy Goals,” and final 12 months’s Swiss submission Carmen Jaquier’s “Thunder.”
“Drowning Dry” opens in choose theaters July 18. Watch the trailer, an IndieWire unique, under.
