The Noisemaker (2014 short)

The Noisemaker (Lithuanian: Triuksmadarys) is a Lithuanian short film written and directed by Karolis Kaupinis and released in 2014.

Plot
A distant provincial school is waiting for an official delegation from the Ministry. They're about to bring a new school bell. This is not what the school needs though. Having shrunk throughout the years, it lacks two pupils to satisfy the governmental quota established for any school in the country to exist.

The gift from the capital is a threat for the survival of the school. Anticipating the arrival of the delegation, the principal makes his best to mask the lack of pupils and avoid the unavoidable school closure.

Cast
• Valentinas Masalskis as Principal

• Sarunas Puidokas as Caretaker

• Aldona Bendoriute as Guardian

• Valerijus Jevsejevas as Teacher

• Elona Karoblyte as Customer

• Neringa Krungleviciute as Teacher

• Tomas Kutkaitis as Traveling Teacher

• Jelena Mastakova as The Boy

• Igoris Reklaitis as Salesman

• Mile Sablauskaite as Priest

• Nijole Sabulyte as Mailwoman

• Vita Siauciunaite as Teacher

• Irena Simonaityte as Teacher

• Dalia Storyk as Teacher

• Zivile Subaciute as Teacher

• Kristina Svencionyte as Traveling Teacher

• Justina Vaiksnoraite as Traveling Teacher

• Diana Valiusaitiene as Traveling Teacher

• Vaclovas Zebrauskas as Librarian

• Velta Zygure as Customer

Production
The Noisemaker is the debut short film of Karolis Kaupinis and his first collaboration with Lithuanian producer Marija Razgutė (M-Films).

Both of the director's parents were schoolteachers, leading him to make a short film about the closure of schools in rural areas, a common phenomenon in Lithuania since the 1990s. The short was filmed in an elementary school in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania.

The Noisemaker was the first Lithuanian film to be selected for the Locarno Film Festival in 20 years, since 1994.