{"id":2146170,"date":"2025-11-10T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2146170"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:54:46","slug":"the-activist-director-on-challenging-stereotypes-the-far-rights-surprising-modernity-and-his-queer-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-activist-director-on-challenging-stereotypes-the-far-rights-surprising-modernity-and-his-queer-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Activist\u2019 Director on Challenging Stereotypes, the Far-Right\u2019s Surprising Modernity, and His Queer Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Lithuanian writer-director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4281289\/\">Romas Zabarauskas<\/a> wants to keep you on the edge of your seat and wants to keep you guessing. His new crime drama <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27109797\/\">The Activist<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27109797\/\">Aktyvistas<\/a>), has drummed up box-office business in his home country, and now the noir thriller is setting its eyes on its international premiere at the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (P\u00d6FF) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13414479\/\">Robertas Petraitis<\/a>, known from Lithuania\u2019s 2026 Oscar contender <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14064760\/\">The Southern Chronicles<\/a>, stars as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17019218\/\">Andrius<\/a>, who is full of grief and guilt after a masked intruder kills his secret lover <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13591853\/\">Deividas<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6110509\/\">Elvinas Juodkazis<\/a>), who is Lithuania\u2019s most influential human rights activist. Andrius has been too afraid to come out or publicly support the queer community ahead of the planned first-ever LGBTQ+ march in the city of Kaunas.<\/p>\n<p>But the murder leads Andrius to launch his own covert investigation without knowing whom to trust, especially as neo-Nazis threaten&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian writer-director Romas Zabarauskas wants to keep you on the edge of your seat and wants to keep you guessing. His new crime drama The Activist (Aktyvistas), has drummed up box-office business in his home country, and now the noir thriller is setting its eyes on its international premiere at the 29th edition of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2146170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-Activist-Director-on-Challenging-Stereotypes-the-Far-Rights-Surprising-Modernity.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146172,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146170\/revisions\/2146172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}