9 minutes. One siren. A mother's worst fear made flesh.
Early in the morning, the air-raid siren goes off. Mother's darkest thoughts become true. She awakens her little son and hurries to pick up only the outfit that is at hand and runs out to protect their lives. In the boy's room, deathly silence reigns with no hope that the family will ever come back there again.
Direction
Two directors, one devastatingly coherent vision
Sound
That siren will haunt your nervous system
Acting
Emilija Latėnaitė-Beliauskienė's silent panic is masterclass
Director
Lina Margaitytė
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lithuania's cinema tradition channels Soviet-era occupation trauma into compressed, wordless devastation—this short continues that lineage.
The 9-minute runtime mirrors real air-raid response windows; the directors designed panic into the viewing experience itself.
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