EL PADRE MEDICO (2019)
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Documentary, 102 min., Lithuania - Brazil. 
A Lithuanian doctor, priest and a war refugee Alexander Ferdinand Bendoraitis (1919-1998) resettles to Amazonian jungle in 1960's and becomes a local hero: establishes first jungle radio, starts the pacification of local indigenous tribes and builds the most modern hospital in the Amazonia. However, as he gets involved in a brutal crime, countless fake narratives that he had created around himself begin to resurface.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:

Camden IFF 2019 - Cinematic Vision competition, World premiere, USA.
Inconvenient Films 2019 -  National premiere, Lithuania.
Baltic Wave, 2020, Lithuania.
Lithuanian Documentary Film Festival in Chicago, 2020, USA.

Lithuanian National Film Awards ‘Silver Crane’ 2020 - nominated for best documentary, cinematography and editing.

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