Frost (2017 film)

Frost (Šerkšnas) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Šarūnas Bartas. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot
The young Lithuanian Rokas (played by Mantas Janciauskas) drives with his girlfriend Inga (Lyja Maknaviciute) a humanitarian aid truck to Donbas region of Ukraine where, amid the violence and death of the war in Donbas, they meet different war reporters, one of whom is played by Vanessa Paradis.

Cast

 * Mantas Jančiauskas as Rokas
 * Lyja Maknavičiūtė as Inga
 * Vanessa Paradis
 * Weronika Rosati
 * Andrzej Chyra

Production
The movie was filmed in frontline towns of Kurakhove, Marinka and Krasnohorivka. Some scenes were filmed as close as 200–300 meters to the frontline. Filming also took place in settings in Kyiv and Dnipro in Ukraine and in Poland and Lithuania.