"I choose love," UFC champion Rose Namajunas tells herself every morning. In the ring, she gracefully moves to the rhythm of the music, and after her victories, she wraps herself in the tricolour. Born into a family of artists from Lithuania, Rose represents and reveals the fundamental difference between violence and combat. And that immense self-confidence, as well as an enormous support circle, can help you endure even the most arduous journey. This film is a sensitive and honest documentary about a true artist who found an antidote to her childhood's hardships.
Marius A. Markevicius (born in 1976 in California, USA) is the author of one of Lithuania's most-watched documentaries ever. The Other Dream Team tells the story of the success of Lithuanian basketball players in the 1992 Olympics, the quest for freedom, and the fall of the Soviet Union. The Lithuanian-American also directed the most successful film ever shown in Lithuanian cinemas, a screen adaptation of the novel about exile, Ashes in the Snow. With the story of Rose Namajunas, he continues his mission to tell the story of the small but courageous Lithuanian nation to the whole world. Symbolically, Rose cites The Other Dream Team as a great inspiration in Marius A. Markevičius' latest film.
91 mins
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