HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR
Andrius Blaževičius | 2026 | Lithuania/Luxembourg/Ireland/Czech Republic | 1h48m | Presented in the original Lithuanian, English, Russian and Ukrainian audio with English subtitles
Marija decides she wants a divorce on February 23, 2022.
The following morning, Russia invades Ukraine.
That timing is the entire engine of HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR. Marija and Vytas are already trying to work out how to separate, what to tell their daughter and who is going to live where. Then a war begins close enough to Lithuania that every private problem suddenly seems both trivial and impossible to ignore.
Vytas is a filmmaker whose career has stalled while he's taken on most of the childcare. Marija is the family breadwinner, working in online media. Their marriage has reached the point where almost every conversation contains years of accumulated resentment. One of the film’s best scenes leaves them sitting in a car arguing for so long that daylight disappears around them.
History doesn't wait for your personal life to calm down. People will always argue about marriages, children, jobs and money while something enormous is happening around them. The film finds a lot of dry humour in that collision without ever treating the war itself as a joke.
It also becomes increasingly interested in the difference between believing the right things and actually living by them. Marija wants to help Ukrainian refugees. Vytas ends up back with parents whose attitudes toward Russia are deeply uncomfortable. Everyone has principles until those principles start making daily life difficult.
The setting matters. Lithuania regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, and the invasion of Ukraine is not an abstract foreign-policy story for the characters. The possibility of Russia pushing further west hangs over ordinary conversations, family disagreements and the way people talk about what they would do if the situation became worse.
Andrius Blaževičius won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance for the film in 2026.
For fans of: BLACK COMEDY · DEADPAN CINEMA · EASTERN EUROPEAN STRANGENESS · ABSURDIST CINEMA
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