What Kind of People Are You
Date:
December 15, 2025
What Kind of People Are You
What Kind of People Are You
by Lina Lužytė
Just a moment | Lithuania
Stellar Film | Estonia
Live-action feature
Logline
A minor car accident caused by 75-year-old Ona spirals into psychological racketeering by wealthy Giedrius. Humiliated but resilient, Ona strikes back with quiet defiance, reclaiming her dignity and restoring justice – if only for one night.
Synopsis
Seventy-five-year-old Ona, poor and largely invisible to society, crosses a six-lane highway – the shortest way to reach her granddaughter, a supermarket cashier who has not answered her phone in three days.
On her way back, Ona is nearly hit by a speeding BMW. She is unharmed, but the car’s side-view mirror snaps off. The wealthy driver, Giedrius – pressured by his controlling wife and unwilling to involve insurance – coerces Ona into paying €900 in cash. Intimidated and ashamed, Ona agrees.
Desperate, Ona tries everything to raise the money but everyone around her is just as broke. With help from her neighbours, she steals an identical side-view mirror, hoping this will end the matter.
It doesn’t. With his wife watching closely, Giedrius refuses the replacement and demands the money.
When Giedrius begins targeting Ona’s great-granddaughter, whom she is raising, it becomes clear this is no longer about a car mirror nor money. He is looking for someone socially powerless to vent out his frustration.
Ona confronts Giedrius at the opening of his pretentious “butt photography” exhibition. In front of guests and press, she offers her “payment” by publicly humiliating him. His wife is furious.
Giedrius retaliates by calling social services. Inspections begin. The pressure mounts.
However, one night, with quiet strength, Ona pushes back – not with violence, but with dignity – and briefly reclaims her voice, her power, and a fragment of justice.
Since graduating in Film Directing from the Lithuanian National Film School in 2011, Lina has worked across fiction and documentary cinema. Her films often portray antiheroes as heroes, challenging conventional notions of “right” and “good,” and embracing open-ended narratives. A distinctive feature of her work is a dark, awkward sense of humour.
Her graduation short comedy It Would Be Splendid, Yet…, set in 1990s Lithuania, received multiple awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct, shoot, and edit the documentary IGRUSHKI in Belarus, which won Best Documentary at the CineDOC Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival.
Lina’s first feature film, Together For Ever (2016), premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, followed by The Castle (2020). She has also contributed to German documentary productions, including 199 Little Heroes and Girls Don’t Cry.
In 2022, she completed BLUE/RED/DEPORT, a documentary about an Afghan filmmaker living in Europe’s largest refugee camp, which premiered at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and later received a theatrical release in Germany. In 2023, Lina co-wrote and co-directed the feature film JOHATSU with Lithuanian philosopher Nerijus Milerius, which premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).
Alongside her filmmaking work, Lina consults on scripts and, since 2023, has served as an expert for the Lithuanian Film Centre.
Director’s Profile
Company Profile
Established in 2007 Just a moment is a Vilnius-based independent production company focusing on auteur film and media projects with high artistic value, daring analytic work and experimental aesthetics. We produce feature films and documentaries, and at the moment also developing our first TV series projects, and feature animation.
Our filmography consists of over 30 completed films, more than half of which are co-productions with partners from Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, France, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Croatia, Romania, Norway, and other countries.
Our recent films include, a series of nine short dance films by nice directors “Dance + City” co-produced with Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and France (Riga IFF 2024, Black Nights IFF 2024, ARTE); 3d feature film “Twittering Soul” (Rotterdam IFF 2024, Fid Marseille IFF 2023, Black Nights FF, 2023), short film 1991 (Brest European Short FF 2023, Cottbus IFF 2023), documentary feature “Burial” (Visions Du Reel 2022, Hot Docs IFF 2022, Viennale IFF 2022, MUBI).