Way Better
Director: Skirmanta Jakaitė
Crew:Producer: Agnė Adomėnė
Email:festival@miyu.fr
Synopsis
A man is waiting for test results. He expects the worst but at the same time hopes for the best. Distressed and afraid he spends a week in a limbo of his own creation, neither here nor there, dreading the things that haven't happened yet.
About the director
Skirmanta Jakaitė (b. 1969) is a director and animator with a BA in Animation from Vilnius Academy of Art. She makes her films using the techniques of 2D drawn animation. Skirmanta’s films have been screened at many acclaimed international film festivals including Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Clermont-Ferrand, DOK Leipzig, Animafest Zagreb, Melbourne, and others. Her film “Non-Euclidean Geometry” (co-directed with Solveiga Masteikaitė) was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 60th Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and has received a Special International Jury Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. Skirmanta has been awarded twice at The Lithuanian Film Academy for The Best Lithuanian Animation Film, for “Non-Euclidean Geometry” in 2014 and “The Juggler” in 2020.