PRODUCTION TEAM:
Director: Oksana Buraja
Cinematography: Kristina Serekajte
Editing: Oksana Buraja
Sound: Giedrius Aleknavicius
Production: Uljana Kim
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Lithuania / Estonia, 2012, 28 min.
RIDM OFFICIAL FILM SYNOPSIS:
"As the title suggests, little Lisa is always running away. Her life is dismal and violent, so she takes refuge in nature, where she creates a fantasy world where games, music and magic reign. Her imagination is so fertile, she is able to survive the endless drinking binges going on at home. What is most remarkable about this sensitive, poetic short film is that it gets to the heart of a terrible situation without surrendering to its darkness. The film has no pretensions to sociological rigour, only a desire to capture the adult world through innocent eyes as faithfully as possible. Like Lynne Ramsay’s early films, this short has earned a place among the most beautiful films ever made about childhood."
Lisa is eight years old. Though inhabiting the same house, she lives in a completely different universe from that of her parents and their friends. In the adult's' reality there is the drinking, squabbling, shouting, loud beat music, sexually suggestive clothing and dancing. But in Lisa's inner world reign melodious harmonies, nature, peace, beauty, and purity. It is a universe to which her parents have no recourse and which they do not understand. They scold her repeatedly for being distant, enclosed in herself, for running away from home. Her mother demands over and over again to explain where she went, but Lisa is dumb on this subject. She cannot and would not explain why she needs to ran away from her mother's reality, and what it is she finds in her own inner universe that she holds so steadfast inside herself. She is completely mesmerised by what she sees in the nature and by nature mysteries, and senses that the adults around her have no understanding of such things. Lisa's dream is to climb a tall mountain, to reach that world of beauty she is seeking, to be in it, to be there not only by herself but together with her family with in the real world she feels a disconnect.
Lisa, go home! is a beautifully made, sensitive, short documentary film. It poses a question: Where is the real home of this little girl? Does she simply withdraw into an imaginary world of her own, or does she actually connect to some spiritual realities she cannot share with anybody around her?
Film's Excerpts:
http://www.oneworld.cz/2013/films-a-z/23298-lisa-go-home
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