TASTY / СМАКОЛИК

Leonid Nefedovich
Sep 18
2 min read

Updated: Sep 20

2024 / 108' / feature / Lithuania

Best friends Ona and Saule work as chefs in a small canteen in Kaunas, Tasty. Always going out of their way to please their customers, one day Saule signs them up for a televised cooking contest by creating fake restaurant profiles, and they miraculously get in. The prize: the winner will receive their very own restaurant. Turning up to the show, the unlikely pair are the clear underdogs, struggling to compete with their idol: chef Madame Brukne – and they are not sure how to handle even the simpler requests like cooking “operatives” (apéritifs). Despite this, their simple but pitch-perfect dishes have them noticed against the rest of the crowd, and they successfully go through the first rounds supported by adoring fans – that is until Ona falls for the charismatic French judge Emanuel.

Screenings schedule:

October 1, 2025 at 3:15 p.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon Hall

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DIRECTOR - EGLE VERTELYTE

Biography

Egle Vertelyte is a Lithuanian screenwriter and director with an MA in Screenwriting from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK.

Her feature debut Miracle premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was selected by over 50 festivals – including six A-class – and sold to 24 territories. It received four Silver Crane awards – Lithuania’s national film awards – for Best Film, Director, Screenwriter, and Actress.

Her second feature, Tasty, premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Film Festival Cottbus, and earned eight Silver Crane nominations, including Best Director and Best Screenplay (co-written with Irena Kuneviciute).

Egle also collaborates with other filmmakers as a screenwriter and script consultant. She wrote 9th Step (2022), acquired by HBO and awarded at several festivals. Her latest work, Southern Chronicles (2024), based on a novel, became the highest-grossing film in Lithuanian history and won Best Baltic Film at Tallinn.

She teaches screenwriting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, mentors emerging talent, and is a PhD candidate in film.

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