PL / EN

CHINA SEA

Directed by: Jurgis Matulevicus
Production: Film Jam
Co-production: Lava Films, Bionaut, MA Studios
premiere: POFF Tallin Black Nights Critic’s Pick Competition
awards: Best Critics’ Picks Film award at POFF Tallin Black Nights

Martial arts champion OSVALD (33) accidentally injures a girl on the street and is expelled from the sports federation. Unable to travel and participate in tournaments in Asia, where he is famous, Osvald is forced to stay in his desolate hometown in Eastern Europe, tormented by guilt. He spends his days in a cheap Asian restaurant “China Sea” owned by his only remaining friend, a Taiwanese immigrant JU-LONG. Attending group psychotherapy sessions prescribed by court, Osvald meets a mysterious woman SKAISTE and feels intensely drawn to her. Searching for redemption and desperate for love, he begins to lose touch with reality. Clinging to what he has at all costs, Osvald resorts to violence again, this time, not by an accident.