Renovation

About the film

Ilona thinks she has found her ideal home in a run-down but charming Soviet-era apartment block in Vilnius, where she hopes to build her career as a writer. But when the renovation begins unexpectedly, and scaffolding and drilling take over her daily life, she becomes increasingly aware of mounting pressures from family, partners and society. In her feature debut, Lithuanian filmmaker Gabrielė Urbonaitė explores the quiet crisis of a woman approaching thirty. Renovation is a gently comic, emotionally sharp portrait of disorientation, shadowed by the ongoing war in Ukraine.